Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge:
Not often are federal courts called upon to assess marital status. Yet that is what happened here: A wrongful-death suit ended in default when a trucking company went bankrupt. That left two plaintiffs— the two adverse parties on appeal—who both claimed to be the decedent's common-law wife. But because...
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