Daily v. Daily
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for divorce, filed by appellee against appéllant, charging adultery with several women. The evidence was voluminous and mostly circumstantial.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for divorce, filed by appellee against appéllant, charging adultery with several women. The evidence was voluminous and mostly circumstantial. G. A. Marsh testified that in 1868 he was marshal of the city of Galesburg; that his attention had been called to the conduct of appellant and certain women,'and he was requested to break it up; that one night he found appellant in the back part of the house of one of these women, in a dark room with her; that he called out and told him of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
This was a bill for a divorce, brought by appellee in the Knox circuit court, against appellant. The charge was adultery on the part of defendant.
It is first urged that the evidence fails to sustain the charge, and for that reason the decree should be reversed. There is much testimony tending to establish the truth of the charge; but as in all, or nearly all, such cases, there is no direct and positive evidence of the acts charged. In such eases, the parties generally use every effort to conceal the act, and courts and juries are compelled to determine the question from the behavior of the…
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