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Title: Texas Employers Insurance Association v. Ethel Mae Elder
Author : The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Release Date : January 13, 1955
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 73 KB

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In the trial court respondent, Ethel Mae Elder, suing as the surviving common-law wife of a deceased employee, Grover Cleveland Elder, recovered judgment against petitioner for death benefits under the Workmens Compensation Law, Articles 8306 et seq. That judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 274 S.W.2d 144. Petitioner defended the action on the ground that the alleged common-law marriage between Ethel Mae and Elder was invalid because of her prior undissolved marriage to Allen Dade. In answer to special issues the jury found that Ethel Mae and Elder entered into an agreement to become man and wife; that they cohabited together as man and wife, and held themselves out to the public as man and wife. The jury made like findings with regard to the relations between Ethel Mae and Allen Dade, the date of the agreement between them to become man and wife being fixed as "prior to 1932." Petitioner alleged that the common-law marriage between Ethel Mae and Allan Dade had not been dissolved, but produced no evidence in support of the allegation.