Hickman v. Hickman

Citations

• 126 Miss. 469
• 89 So. 6

Syllabus

<p>Marriage. Presumption of validity of second marriage held to overcome presumption tlvat first husband was alive.</p> <p>Where a wife contracts a second marriage before her former husband has been absent seven years, the presumption of the validity of the second marriage will overcome the presumption that the first husband was alive when the second marriage was contracted, and, though the wife has not been divorced from her first husband, the presumption of the validity of her second marriage will continue until it is -made to appear that her first husband is alive.</p>