Thewlis's Estate

Citations

• 217 Pa. 307
• 66 A. 519
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 705

Syllabus

<p>Marriage — Presumption as to divorce — Remarriage.</p> <p>Where a married, man in England deserts his wife in 1858, and emigrates to this country, and in 1868 marries again by a religious ceremony in this country, and his wife in England marries again in 1869, and the man’s first wile dies in 1891, and the man himself in 1904, and during the thirteen years from 1891 to 1904, the woman to whom he had been formally married in 1868, was recognized by him and by herself and by the community as his lawful wife, and in 1896, they executed a deed in which they recited themselves as husband and wife, it will be presumed either that the man and his second wife were married after a divorce from the first wife, or 'that if no such divorce had been obtained they contracted the marriage relation after the death of the first wife.</p>