Hinckley v. Ayres

Citations

• 105 Cal. 357
• 38 P. 735
• 1895 Cal. LEXIS 665

Syllabus

<p>Marriage Without Solemnization—Evidence. —There can be no mutual assumption of marital rights, duties, and obligations, within the meaning of section 55 of the Civil Code, so as to constitute a marriage without solemnization, unless the parties live together as husband and wife, treat each other in the usual way with married people, and so conduct themselves as to have full repute among their intimate friends and associates to be husband and wife. Tested by this rule, held, that the evidence sustained the finding of the trial court that the appellant and the deceased did not live together as husband and wife.</p>