Foss v. Foss

The appellee filed her bill in the Circuit Court of Cook county, on the chancery side thereof, against her husband, the appellant, setting up, among other things, that she was living separate and apart from her said husband, but without fault on her part. That such separation of herself from him was made necessary by the cruelty and ill treatment of her husband, and prays for a decree against him for her separate maintenance. This bill was filed pursuant to the provisions of “Section 1 of an act in relation to Married Women, approved May 17th, 1877,” Bradwell’s Session Laws of 1877, 115,…