Cordas v. Ryan

delivered the; opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error was the proponent of the will of N. D. Danicks, a Greek by birth, and otherwise known as Nicholas Demetrios Danikas. The defendant in error contested the will, claiming to be the common law wife of the testator, married without ceremony after the will was made, by which marriage the will was revoked. She was defeated in the county court but on appeal to the district *522court was successful. The ground claimed for reversal is that the evidence shows no marriage of any sort but merely an illicit relation concealed by pretense of marriage…