Tabor v. Fowler

Deen, Judge.

1. This is an appeal from a contest for letters of administration in the Court of Ordinary of DeKalb County, following a verdict in the superior court in favor of D. W. Fowler, the alleged common law husband of the decedent Willa Nell Fowler, and against the decedent’s sister, Evelyn Tabor. The court, after correctly instructing the jury that the sole issue in the case was whether appellee was the common law husband of the decedent, charged in part as follows: “The provisions of Code § 53-101 are as follows: in order for there to be a valid marriage in this State, there must be…