COULTER v. MELADY

No. 8115.

489 S.W.2d 156 (1972)

Henry COULTER et al., Appellants, v. Archie MELADY et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied December 12, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Anderson, Sam B. Hall, Jr., Hall & Huffman, Marshall, L. F. Burke, Longview, for appellants.

Ben Z. Grant, Kirkpatrick, Grant, Dennis & Baxter, Marshall, for appellees.


CHADICK, Chief Justice.

Archie Gordon Melady and Mrs. Leola Anderson were ostensibly united in marriage on July 16, 1970, in a marriage ceremony solemnized before a Justice of the Peace of Harrison County, Texas. As the parties entered the ceremony, both were single, one male and the other female, and both had complied with all legal prerequisites to a valid marriage so far as premarital tests, obtaining a marriage license, and presenting themselves at the ceremony...

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