Lewis v. Lewis' Administrator

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Affirming.

“ During the summer of 1927, a startling disovery was made in the marriage license and registry bureau of the Circuit court clerk’s office in Jeffersonville, Indiana, just across the Ohio river from the city of Louisville. The records of that office showed that on June 24, 1927, by authority of a license issued on that day, a marriage ceremony was performed by a justice of the peace, whereby a woman was married to a man who (as is otherwise shown) had been dead for two and a half months when the marriage took place. The solution of this…