Legal Opinion

Inhabitants of Camden v. Inhabitants of Belgrade

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided April 7, 1886PublishedCited by 6 opinions

On exceptions and motion. An action for pauper supplies furnished William O. Kaherl and his wife, Mary O. Kaherl, and their children. It was admitted that the settlement of William O. Kaherl was in Belgrade, and the settlement of his wife, before her marriage to him, wins in Camden.

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On exceptions and motion. An action for pauper supplies furnished William O. Kaherl and his wife, Mary O. Kaherl, and their children. It was admitted that the settlement of William O. Kaherl was in Belgrade, and the settlement of his wife, before her marriage to him, wins in Camden. The defence only related to the settlement of Mary Í). Kaherl and the children ; the defendants contending that Kaherl was previously married to Esther A. Craig, who was living and was his lawful wife at the time of KaherPs marriage with Mary O. Kaherl, and that, upon that ground, the latter marriage was void.…

1Opinion of the CourtWaltoN, J.

This is a pauper suit, and is a second time before the law court. The question formerly presented was whether a subsequent marriage could be invalidated by circumstantial evidence of a prior marriage; and it was held that it could. Camden v. Belgrade, 75 Maine, 126.

The case has been again tried, and is now before the law court: (1.) On exceptions to the admission of evidence; (2.) On exceptions to the charge of the judge; (3.) On motion fora new trial on the ground that the verdict is against evidence; (4.) On motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence.

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2Cited by6 opinions

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