Law: License = Marriage

Chicago Lawyer Newman A. Du Mont died last September, leaving an estate in excess of $100,000 to his mother, Mrs. Loretta Du Mont. His pretty widow, Jane Wilson Du Mont, 29, went into Probate Court and was declared a legal widow, entitled to one-third of the real and personal property in the estate under Illinois law. Mother Du Mont appealed, denying the validity of her son's 1932 hasty marriage in Crown Point, Ind., part of the record of which had been lost.

Fortnight ago one of the country judges sitting in Cook County's Circuit Court (TIME, April 26), Joseph E. Daily of...

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