Welch v. Welch
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marathon County. In 1861, Louisa Welch applied to said circuit court for a decree of divorce from Thomas Welch, and to be allowed the care and custody of the infant child of said marriage.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marathon County. In 1861, Louisa Welch applied to said circuit court for a decree of divorce from Thomas Welch, and to be allowed the care and custody of the infant child of said marriage. The complaint averred that the parties intermarried, at Wausau in Marathon county, in April, 1859 ; that plaintiff then was and ever since bad been a resident of said county; that immediately after the marriage defendant left Wausau with the expressed intention of going “down the river to St. Louis,” and had not since returned to said county, and had not coi’res-ponded with…
1Opinion of the CourtDlKON, C. J.
Unlike the proceeding in In re Goodenough, 19 Wis., 274, this is a statutory one, arising under the divorce law, to determine whether the plaintiff or the defendant, formerly husband and wife, shall have the care and custody and be charged with, the maintenance of a child of theirs, a boy, who at this time has attained the age of about fourteen years. The parties were divorced in this action, which was commenced by the wife against the husband, charging willful desertion, and a judgment obtained on that ground in the year 1861. The parties have since married again, the plaintiff with another…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In re Goodenough ex rel. GoodenoughWisconsin Supreme Court · 1865
- Noonan v. OrtonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1872
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