Brandywine Paperboard Mills v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a common law marriage was established even though the parties had made plans to have a “church wedding” prior to the decedent’s death
• recognizing a common law marriage where couple did not share a bank account or file joint tax return
• finding that common law marriage existed despite plans for a church wedding more than six years after a private ceremony creating the common law marriage
• “Although the precise words used are not alone controlling, proof of the actual intention of the parties to form a marriage contract is indispensable to the existence of a common law marriage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).