Longstreet v. Longstreet

Wyatt, Justice.

1. It is now the well-settled law of this State that, where there is more than one marriage, the law presumes the last marriage to be valid; and the burden is upon the one attacking it to overcome this presumption by proving its invalidity. Nash v. Nash, 198 Ga. 527 (32 S. E. 2d, 379); Reed v. Reed, 202 Ga. 508 (43 S. E. 2d, 539). Where a party to a ceremonial marriage attacks its validity upon the ground that the opposite party to the marriage contract was inpapable of entering into a valid marriage because of a previous undissolved marriage, the party attacking the second…