Buhler v. Adkins

HAYS, Justice.

While vacationing and visiting her niece in America, appellant, Alice Ida Buhler, a citizen of East Yorkshire, England, met, and soon thereafter married, the decedent, John W. Buhler, a 77-year-old resident of Mayer, Arizona. Within two weeks, however, appellant, apparently dissatisfied with her new marriage, returned to her native England and wrote the decedent, informing him that their vows had been overly hasty and a mistake, and of her intention to resume the use of her prenuptial name. Appellant wrote a similar letter to her niece. The decedent responded by filing a formal…