The right to compensation is founded on the contention that claimant and decedent contracted a valid common-law marriage during a week-end trip to Washington, D. C., in 1955. There was evidence of their mutual agreement per verba de praesenti to be husband and wife consummated by cohabitation (see United States Fid. & Guar. Co. v. Britton,
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