Hamilton v. Hamilton
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Franklin county; the Hon. Monroe C. Crawford, Judge, presiding. Plaintiff was the wife of defendant, and had instituted in the circuit court a suit against him for a divorce, (upon a charge of adultery) and for alimony.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Franklin county; the Hon. Monroe C. Crawford, Judge, presiding. Plaintiff was the wife of defendant, and had instituted in the circuit court a suit against him for a divorce, (upon a charge of adultery) and for alimony. Pending this suit, on the 15th of August, 1876, they agreed, in writing, signed by both, (among other things,) that defendant, (the then husband) would give to plaintiff, (the then wife) a certain farm, (described) ; and that he would pay her, further, the sum of $500, (in a mode specified,) the farm to be conveyed by them both to John W.…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The question chiefly discussed in this case
is that of the capacity of plaintiff, at the time of the contract, to contract with her husband.
This statute of March 30, 1874, (R. S. 576,) goes much further in abolishing disabilities arising from coverture, than any former statute. By it a wife may sue and be sued as if unmarried ; an attachment or judgment may be enforced against her as if she were unmarried; she may defend in her own rig-lit when sued with her husband; “ contracts may be made and liabilities incurred by a wife * * * as if she were unmarried,” except contracts of…
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