In re the Application for Letters of Administration of the Goods, Chattels & Credits of Hafner

Schulz, S.

The uncontradicted evidence in this matter is that the marriage relation existed between the decedent and Harriet Hafner, the petitioner, and that it began in or about the year 1896, and I so hold. It follows that the issue of such marriage is legitimate.

It also appears, without contradiction, that the decedent and his wife Harriet had separated and were living apart prior to the former’s death, and that in the year 1914 a ceremonial marriage was contracted by the decedent with one Sadie Hafner who, so far *278as the evidence discloses, had no knowledge whatsoever of the prior marriage…