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      "G. P. H. JONES and others v. N. J. REDDICK and others."
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        "text": "ByNUM, J.\n(After stating the case as-above.) Xo actual .marriage was shown, nor was it shown or offered to be shown, what would constitute a valid marriage by the laws of Georgia, where the marriage was alleged to have been celebrated. But in all Christian States, especially in the States of the American Union, which, although in some respects foreign to each other, have a common, origin, and in other respects, a constitutional community of rights and interests, it is presumed that the .common law j>revails, and that the same proofs which are sufficient to establish the fact of marriage in one State, will be likewise sufficient to establish the same fact in another State. Brown v. Pratt, 3 Jones, Eq., 202; Griffin v. Carter, 5 Ire. Eq., 413.\n\u25a0 By the common law it is held to be a general rule, of universal application in civil causes, except in actions for criminal conversation, that reputation, cohabitation, the .declarations and conduct of the parties, are competent evidence of marriage between them. Archer v. Haithcock, 6 Jones, 421; Weaver v. Cryer, 1 Dev. 837; Wharton Ev., \u00a7\u00a7 84, 1297; 1 Starkie, Ev., 297, 300; 2 Greenl., Ev., 762; 1 Doug., 170; 4 T. R., 458.\nAs such evidence would have been competent to establish marriage in this State by the common law, by the same law it must be held to be competent to establish, that the parties were legally married according to the laws of Georgia. There was not only sufficient, but plenary evidence of the marriage.\nNo error. Affirmed'.",
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    "head_matter": "G. P. H. JONES and others v. N. J. REDDICK and others.\nMarriage \u2014 Evidence.\n1. In the absence of proof-to the contrary, the rules of the common' law relative to marriage, are presumed to obtain in all Christian countries, and especially in the States of the American Union.\n2. By the law of North Carolina,' which is in conformity to the common law, reputation, cohabitation, and the declarations and conduct of the parties are competent evidence of marriage in questions of inheritance ... .\n(Brown v. Pratt, 3 Jones Eq. 202; Griffin v. Carter, 5 Ire. Eq. 413; Archer v. Haithcock, 6 Jones 421; Weaver v. Cryer, 1 Dev. 337, cited and approved.)\nCivil ActioN, tried at Spring Term, 1878, of Gates Superior Court, before F\u00farches, J. '\nThis was an action for \u2019 the recovery of land, and the-plaintiffs\u2019 right of recovery' turns upon the question,\u2014 whether they are the \u201c lawful children \u201d of Alfred E. J ones, the son of Frederick Jones, the testator. Upon the trial of this issue before the jury, one E.-T. Jones testified that-he was a brother hf-Alfred E. Ju\u00f1es, and remembered that his brother-left this State in 1850* removed first to Florida,. and thence to Georgia ; that he visited him in Savannah,. Georgia, during the war, and he was then married and had three children; that his wife\u2019s name was Sarah, and the names of his children, Georgiana, .Virginia, and George Paul Harrison ; that he had no personal knowledge of the marriage, but that he lived in his brother Alfred\u2019s family-eleven months, in Savannah, and that he was then living-with a woman named Sarah who appeared to be his wife, sat at the head of the table, and was the mother of the children named; that he corresponded with the family since, and heard that Georgiana had died, and another child named Emily had since been born, and that when he was there during the war as aforesaid, the eldest child was six or seven years old.\nThe plaintiffs next introduced the deposition of R,. \"W. Russell, an attorney at law, residing in Savannah, Georgia, who testified that he knew the plaintiffs, and that they are the children of Alfred E, Jones and Sarah A. Jones, his wife; that he had known Alfred twenty-two years, and that he died in Savannah on the 15th of December, 1874.\nThe plaintiffs then produced and read in evidence a duly certified copy of a marriage license of Alfred E. Jones und Sarah A. Dill, taken from the records of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham county, Georgia, and of a certificate that they were duly married on the 22d of May, 1850, signed by the Rev. James E. Godfrey, the minister who performed the ceremony of marriage.\nAll the foregoing evidence was admitted without objection, but upon it, the defendants asked the Court to instruct the jury, that it was not sufficient to warrant them in finding that Alfred E. Jones had been legally married, and that the plaintiffs are his lawful children. His Honor refused the instruction, and the jury found the issue in favor of the plaintiffs. Judgment. Appeal by defendants.\nNo counsel for plaintiffs.\nMessrs. Gilliam, Gatling, for defendants.\nSmith O. J. di'd-uot sit on the hsaring of this case.'"
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