Christoph v. Sims

On Rehearing.

CRAMER, Justice.

The full Court has carefully reviewed our original holding in this case, in view of some of the assignments in the motion for- rehearing. While it has often been said, as in Speer in Law of Marital Rights in Texas, 3rd Ed., sec. 597, p. 729, “In determining the validity of a marriage contract, no very different rule is applied from that applicable to other contracts,” it is also true that the relationship brought about by marriage is of such public concern that the Legislature has impressed more stringent rules as to the burden of proof with reference to its…