Legal Opinion

Caswell v. Caswell

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided August 26, 1886PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Piatt County; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtConger, J.

This is a bill in the nature of a bill of review brought by appellee in the Piatt Circuit Court, December 22, 1883, to impeach and annul a decree of divorce obtained by appellant in said court at its September term, 1869, on the ground of fraud.

Appellant and ^appellee were married at Montevideo, Uruguay, August 15, 1862, where they continued to reside until 1863, when they removed to California, and remained there until April 10, 1865, at which date Caswell sent his wife to her father’s, home in Brooklyn, Hew York. Upon the same day he mailed a letter to her father, James M. Willis, which…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Jones v. LloydIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
  2. Lawrence v. LawrenceIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
  3. Sloan v. SloanIllinois Supreme Court · 1882

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Carlisle v. CarlisleMichigan Supreme Court · 1893

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