Case Name: Mary Houpt v. George Houpt
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1832-12
Citations: 5 Ohio 539
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mary Houpt v. George Houpt.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases decided in the supreme court of ohio : upon the circuit at the special sessions in Columbus
Volume: 5
Pages: 493–494

Head Matter:
Mary Houpt v. George Houpt.
Practice in case of divorce.
Beeore Judges Hitchcock and Wright, in Morgan, 1832.
Application for divorce on the ground the defendant had a former wife living at his intermarriage with the complainant. Evi- ■ dence was offered to prove the former marriage by cohabitation and reputation. <•

Opinion:
By the Court:
Section 4 of the divorce act, 29 Ohio L. 432, authorizes the court, in its discretion, to admit proof of cohabitation and reputation as-evidence of the marriage of the parties. We understand the marriage referred to here, which, in our discretion, may be proved by reputation, etc., to be the marriage of the parties to the suit, sought to be dissolved. *The evidence now offered we have no authority to receive. The discretion vested in us in the case provided for should not be exercised to admit the reputation proof without some reason is shown to excuse the production of better proof of the fact of marriage.