IN RE ADAMS ESTATE

Docket No. 72, Calendar No. 48,461.

362 Mich. 624 (1961)

107 N.W.2d 764

In re ADAMS ESTATE.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 1, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meisner & Meisner (Ivan Meisner and Thomas L. Poindexter, of counsel), for appellants Amason.

Leithauser, Leithauser & Tobias (Robert C. Leithauser, of counsel), for appellees Adams.


SOURIS, J.

As early in our jurisprudence as the case of Dixon v. People, 18 Mich. 84, we have held that, where the validity of a marriage is attacked on the ground that one of the parties was married to another, a very strong presumption exists in favor of the validity of the second marriage, particularly where the second marriage was a ceremonial marriage and children were born during it. This case involves that presumption of validity of a second ceremonial...

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