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• Title: Bowers v. Wyoming State Treasurer
• Author : Supreme Court of Wyoming
• Release Date : January 05, 1979
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 59 KB

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Lela M. Bowers claimed workers compensation benefits as surviving widow of Thomas Ira Bowers. Her claim of widowhood was based on an alleged common-law marriage consummated in the State of Texas, which recognizes such marriages. The trial court rejected her claim for the sole reason that she was not the survivor of a "marriage solemnized by a legal ceremony," as required by applicable Wyoming statutes, and considered immaterial the - Page 183 question of whether such valid common-law marriage had existed in Texas, thereby establishing a legal marriage in Wyoming. In our previous decision, Bowers v. Getter Trucking Company, Wyo., 514 P.2d 837 (1973), we determined that those statutes, under the decision of Trent v. Union Pacific Coal Co., 68 Wyo. 146, 231 P.2d 180 (1951), required rejection of her claim, but that the constitutional principles considered therein should be reexamined in the light of developing law. Since it was clear that the trial court had ignored the question of whether there had existed a valid common-law marriage in Texas and the record was considered deficient in this respect, we remanded the cause for further proceedings to determine that point. The matter is now before us with proper stipulation that Thomas and Lela Bowers had consummated a valid common-law marriage under the laws of Texas.

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