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When you get into the bite of these common law cases is when there is, and these are the saddest cases I ever found - they used to break my heart - an existing, legal wife who was ceremonially married. They separated or lost each other and never were divorced. He took up with somebody else who made him a good wife. There was one case where a man had married a floozy on a Saturday night when he was drunk, but he married her all right and there was a record of the marriage in the town where it took place. This first wife long since lost, never heard of for years, heard about his death and that there would be money in that. This floozy got the money. That case annoyed me. There was nothing you could do about that. When there was an existing, legal wife no common law marriage can be contracted. It isn't a marriage because it's bigamous.

We had a number of cases which were very strange. Miss Jay reminded me that I worked like a dog. I had a list, which I made out within the first month after I came back, that I wanted to accomplish. As I got them done, I checked them off one by one. I kept the list in my lower righthand drawer for years and it is still somewhere. Miss Jay says it's among my papers upstairs in the attic of my house if I look for it. I got sentimental about it finally and wouldn't let it be thrown away, because it kind of helped