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Day v. DAY

Citations

  • 58 S.E.2d 83
  • 216 S.C. 334
  • 1950 S.C. LEXIS 22

How courts have described this case

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  • “In our opinion, if it had been the intention of the legislature to sanction an adulterous relationship as constituting a basis of dependency, express provision would have been made therefor in the [Workers’] Compensation Act.”
  • “A mere marriage ceremony between a man and a woman, where one of them has a living wife or husband, is not a marriage at all. Such a marriage is absolutely void, and not merely voidable.”
  • “A mere marriage ceremony between a man and a woman, where one of them has a living wife or husband, is not a marriage at all. Such a marriage is absolutely void, and not merely voidable”
  • “A mere marriage ceremony between a man and a woman, where one of them has a living wife or husband, is not a marriage at all. Such a marriage is absolutely void, and not merely voidable.”

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Judges: Fishburne, Baker, Stukes, Tayeor, Oxner

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