Stewartson v. Stewartson
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was heard before Emees on, Judge, at May term, 1853, of the Shelby Circuit Court. Mary Jane Stewartson, the appellant, was married to William Stewartson, the appellee, in the year 1848, and had, at her marriage, $320 and upwards, which afterwards came to the use of the appellee, and was appropriated by him. That shortly after the marriage, appellee, with $40 of appellant’s money, entered in the name of the appellant, a forty acre tract of land.
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This cause was heard before Emees on, Judge, at May term, 1853, of the Shelby Circuit Court. Mary Jane Stewartson, the appellant, was married to William Stewartson, the appellee, in the year 1848, and had, at her marriage, $320 and upwards, which afterwards came to the use of the appellee, and was appropriated by him. That shortly after the marriage, appellee, with $40 of appellant’s money, entered in the name of the appellant, a forty acre tract of land. Afterwards, in April, 1850, appellee abandoned appellant, and has always since refused to return to, or live with her. The appellant was…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.
At the time of the marriage of the parties, the complainant had 320 dollars in money, which came to the hands of the complainant; with fifty dollars of which he entered a forty acre tract of land in the name of the complainant. The balance he appropriated to his own use. 'When the defendant abandoned the complainant, he left her in possession of his dwelling, and some personal property, a part of which she sold, and with the proceeds purchased another forty acre tract of .land in her own name. The rents of the defendant’s real estate are about $120 per annum, being one dollar per acre for the…
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