Follansbee v. Wilbur

Citations

• 14 Wash. 242
• 44 P. 262
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 347

Syllabus

<p>MARRIAGE WITH INDIAN — VALIDITY — STATUTES — OPERATION.</p> <p>The marriage of a white man and an Indian woman in the year 1868, according to the customs in vogue among the Swinomish tribe of Indians, followed by cohabitation as man and wife, was not a legal marriage, even if there were no miscegenation acts in force at the time thereof.</p> <p>The passage of the act of 1875 regulating the descent of property did not operate to prevent the act passed on the same day relating to adoption from becoming a law, but the two must be construed together as one act.</p>