A PECULIAR MARRIAGE CASE.
In th e Glasgow Court of Session n». cently Lord Low heard proof in an a®- 1 ' tion of declarator of marriage at the in*' stance of Elizabeth or Isabella Stewart; or Oossar, widow of the deceased Land Cossar, senior, Glasgow, and other*; against John Baxter, with whom the da* ceased David Cossar was employed, and; others. David Cossar wag killed on 30th ( March, 1900, by the fall of a brick from, a building at which he was working. The, first pursuer is his widow, and the other, pursuers are the children of the mat* riage, while the defenders are the father,' sister, and children by his (ret marriage i of David Cossar. The Pursuer (41) stafc-i ed, in reply to Mr Watt, K. 0,, that, she first met the deceased David Cossar. in 1881 at his sister's house in Edin* 1 burgh, where she-lodged. She took *i situation as a cook, and on her nights, out he courted her. At that time ha was a widower. About October; 1881, Cossar took the pursuer in a cab to a 1 registrar's office in the Lothian road.; When they left the hotel in the Grassmarket, whero the pursuer was employed as a cook, Oossar threw coppers to the! children. They notified the registrar! of their intention to get married. A few days afterwards they went to reside at Edinburgh, They then accented of( each other as pusband and wife, and up, to the time of Cossar’s death Jthey lived together, and were by habit and repute' married. Tbo pursuer said that no man ever treated . his wife oetter than her husband trated her, and when his father hau spoken to him about living with her he. said that so long as he had ten fingers she would never want. If she established ber claim to-be the deceased, David Cossar’s wife she would he ena titled to £3OO under the Workmen’s Compensation Act as compensation for, his death. Evidence was led to show that the neighbours of the parties bad always considered tbem to be husband ana wife. Lord Low said he w-uld taka time to consider the case.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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361A PECULIAR MARRIAGE CASE. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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