Brodock v. Brodock

Plaintiff files this bill to obtain a decree of divorce from a common-law marriage. Defendant by way of cross-bill also seeks such a decree. The bill and cross-bill were both dismissed on the ground that no common-law marriage was established. Plaintiff appeals. There is no question upon this record but that the parties held each other out as husband and wife during the several years they lived together. To their friends, acquaintances, and the public generally, they were husband and wife. The serious question on the record is whether they were husband and wife inter se, as to whether a…