Whitman v. Whitman

Dorothy Whitman and Ethel Gaines Whitman filed a hill of complaint on October 9, 1947, against Mary Ward Whitman seeking to have Dorothy Whitman adjudged to he the sole heir at law of John H. Whitman, who died intestate on November 30, 1940. The suit is based upon a charge that John H. Whitman and Ethel Gaines Whitman contracted a valid common law marriage in Meridian, Mississippi, about the year 1910 or 1911 and lived and cohabited as husband and wife until after Dorothy was born on June 17, 1914, subsequent to which it is alleged that John contracted a ceremonial marriage with Mary on June…