Court Opinion

ID: 9832655
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:05:12.350097+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:19.405049
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
[3] There is absolutely no showing made that there was ever a common-law or slave marriage between Sidney Shenault and the mother of appellants. True, there is some testimony that they were living together at the time and before they married, but this would be totally insufficient to show a common-law marriage. They must not only unconditionally agree to live together as husband and wife the remainder of their lives, but must live together and cohabit as such and so hold themselves out to the public. The circumstance that they had a child born before they married does not establish the fact that they were married. But this case was tried before the court. This circumstance, as well as the further fact that these people were living together at the time they married, we assume, was duly considered by the court on the question of a slave or common-law marriage and determined against appellants. That is an end of the matter so far as this court is concerned.
' The motion for rehearing and for additional findings of fact are both overruled.