2 Pin. 24 | Wis. | 1847
This case was commenced before a justice of the peace in and for the county of Racine, upon a promissory note given by one of the defendants, Dorcas B. Martin, to the plaintiff while she was sole, and by the name of D. B. Simmons. Afterward, and previously to the commencement of this suit, she intermarried with the other defendant, John Martin, and the suit was accordingly brought against both. Recovery by the plaintiffs was resisted by John Martin, who answered to the summons, on the ground that he and the said Dorcas had not been married according to the requirements of the statute: in this, that the person who officiated in the ceremony of marriage as a minister of the gospel had not, before performing the ceremony, filed his credentials of ordination with the clerk of the district court of that