Bell v. Bennett
Supreme Court of Georgia
Husband and Wife. Marriage^ and Divorce. Year’s Support. Before Judge Brown. Fqrsyth Superior Court. February Term, 18b4. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The defendant in error applied for a twelve months’ support out of the estate of Jesse M. Bennett, deceased, as the widow of the deceased.
*785To this application the representative of Bennett’s estate objected.
(1.) Because the applicant was never the wife of deceased. That at the time, before and after the pretended marriage of applicant with Jesse Bennett, and until the death of said Jesse, the said Jesse was insane and incapable of contracting marriage, and that said pretended marriage was null and void.
(2.) That, for the short time she lived with said Jesse, she lived in a…
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