BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
This was a suit by the alleged common-law wife of Leonard Haynes, deceased, to recover from the trustees of his estate a half interest in the community property.
The District Judge who heard the witness held that the evidence was insufficient to prove a common-law marriage, and dismissed the suit.
About the first of the year of 1886, Leonard Haynes, a young man of college education, was living in the village of Carrizo, Zapata...
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