French v. State Industrial Accident Commission

Two issues only are argued in the plaintiff’s (appellant’s) brief: (a) The trial judge erred in failing to instruct the jury that a man and a woman deporting themselves as husband and wife are presumed to have been legally married; and (b) the •plaintiff’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto should have been sustained. The plaintiff claims that she and one George French contracted a common-law marriage in Idaho. The defendants do not deny that common-law marriages may be lawfully contracted in that state, but both parties agree that such marriages cannot be legally contracted in either…