Barker v. Barker

— At about eleven-thirty in the morning, on May 2, 1942, Phyllis Peterson arrived in Tacoma, from Bellingham, with an aunt, and with the purpose of being a witness to her aunt’s marriage to a soldier. The aunt’s fiancé arrived from Fort Lewis about seven o’clock that evening, accompanied by another soldier, one Herman W. Schuessler, who was to be his buddy’s witness. Miss Peterson had previously met Schuessler in Bellingham. By nine o’clock, Schuessler and Miss Peterson had' obtained a marriage license and a three-day waiver, and both couples were married by a justice of the peace. About…