The problem in this case is whether the claimant is the widow of the deceased employee by virtue of a common-law marriage purported to have been contracted in Iowa in June and July, 1958. At the time the parties began living together in Illinois, claimant was under disability to contract a marriage because of the existence of a then subsisting marriage. A divorce granted in Virginia became final on January 21, 1958. In March, 1958 a child was born to the parties at Cortland...
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