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IN RE SUTHERLAND'S ESTATE

No. 30,729.

246 Ind. 234 (1965)

204 N.E.2d 520

IN RE SUTHERLAND'S ESTATE, PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP, SUTHERLAND ET AL. v. SUTHERLAND ET AL.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed February 22, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Haley, of Seymour, and Stephen W. Terry, Jr., and Baker & Daniels, of counsel, of Indianapolis, for appellant.

Robert R. Kelso, Robert A. Kelso, and Kelso & Kelso, of New Albany, for appellee.

ARTERBURN, C.J.

This case comes to us on petition to transfer. See 195 N.E.2d 778.

It concerns the validity of an alleged "common-law" marriage. Bonnie B. Sutherland, the appellee, asked for a determination of heirship to share in the estate of her alleged husband as a widow. The trial court rendered judgment in her favor.

The first error assigned for our consideration here is that the trial court had no jurisdiction of the action for the determination...

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