Stiles v. Stiles
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. G-. Ewing, Judge, presiding.
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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. G-. Ewing, Judge, presiding. Plaintiff in error filed his bill against his wife, the defendant in error, in the Superior Court of Cook county, setting forth their marriage, the birth of one child, now of the age of about ten years, and alleging that the defendant had committed adultery with Herbert P. Crane and others to the complainant unknown, and praying for a divorce and the custody of the child. The defendant answered denying the allegations of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
After a careful consideration of the record in this case, and upon both oral and written arguments, we have arrived at the conclusion that the decree entered by the learned chancellor in the Superior Court is erroneous. We are satisfied with the decree in so far as it found that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain the allegations of the cross-bill that the plaintiff in error had been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty to his wife; and in support of the charge of adultery against him no evidence whatever was introduced. We have no doubt, from the evidence, that, even before he…
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