Gerber v. Gerber

The appellee filed this bill for divorce charging extreme and repeated cruelty.

The court upon conflicting testimony, seeing the witnesses (Burt v. Burt, 40 Ill. App. 536), found “ that all tl e material facts alleged in said bill are true, and that the defendant has been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty as therein set forth,” and upon that entered a decree for a divorce, and that she be allowed to resume her former name. Mo alimony, no custody of children, not even her costs in the court below (for the decree is silent as to costs) are involved; but she was a widow with some money, and…