Lindenmann v. Lindenmann
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: ObeeN T. Willlams, Judge. Defendant appealed from that part of a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county in a divorce action which awards to plaintiff the sum of $2,000 as and for a final division and distribution of the defendant’s estate.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: ObeeN T. Willlams, Judge. Defendant appealed from that part of a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county in a divorce action which awards to plaintiff the sum of $2,000 as and for a final division and distribution of the defendant’s estate. Plaintiff alleged failure to support, and that the defendant had been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment, and prayed for a judgment of divorce from bed and board, and for .an allowance of alimony out of defendant’s property, or for a division and distribution of the defendant’s…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
The plaintiff in this case was awarded the sum of $2,000 out of defendant’s estate, as a reasonable sum for a final division and distribution thereof. Had the amount of defendant’s property above his indebtedness been in the form of money, we find it difficult to perceive how. an award of $2,000 to plaintiff. could be deemed just and reasonable, under the statute prescribing that such final division and distribution of defendant’s estate shall be made with “due regard to the legal and equitable rights of each party, the ability of the husband, the special estate of the wife, the character and…
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