Hendrix v. L. G. DeWitt, Inc.

PARKER, Judge.

The evidence before the Industrial Commission as to whether the deceased employee’s prior marriage to Carolyn had been dissolved by divorce prior to his subsequent marriage to *331Cordia was at best contradictory and inconclusive. Upon evidence no more convincing, our Supreme Court in Chalmers v. Womack, 269 N.C. 433, 152 S.E. 2d 505, held that the issue as to the validity of a subsequent marriage was properly submitted to the finders of the fact, in that case a jury, and found no error in a judgment entered upon a verdict finding the subsequent marriage valid. The opinion in that…