Dunham v. Dunham
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel P. McConnell, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the circuit, court of Cook county, granting to appellee, Ransom W. Dunham, a' divorce from appellant, Elizabeth R. Dunham.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel P. McConnell, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the circuit, court of Cook county, granting to appellee, Ransom W. Dunham, a' divorce from appellant, Elizabeth R. Dunham. The parties were married in the city of Philadelphia on December 24, 1889, and a few days thereafter took up their residence in the city of Chicago, where they lived together until December 31, 1892, when appellant left Chicago…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
The principal question of law presented by this record is, what was the effect of the decree of divorce obtained by appellant, against appellee, in the circuit court of Lincoln county, State of South Dakota, and set up in her cross-bill in this cause in the circuit court of Cook county as a bar to the further maintenance of this suit? ' As the Dakota decree was obtained after issue made in this cause, it is conceded, and there can be no doubt, that to avail herself of such decree as a defense to this suit the rules of equity pleading required that she should set it up by cross-bill. Story’s…
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