Fountain v. Fountain
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Perry County; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtWilkin, P. J.
This is a bill by appellee against her liusband, appellant, for separate maintenance under Sec. 22, Chap. 68, R. S. By the bill she avers tC that a few weeks after their marriage the defendant commenced a course of unkind, cruel and inhuman conduct toward her, which continued until she finally separated from him on the 27th day of May, A. D. 1886; that lie was guilty of such extreme and repeated cruelty toward her as to render it unsafe and improper for her to cohabit and live with him as his wife; she therefore is and has been ever since the said 27th day of May, A. D. 1886, living separate…
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