White v. White
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment and an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee countj: LawReuce W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff appeals from that part of the order which allows the defendant attorneys’ fees on her motion to set aside the judgment. Defendant appeals from the judgment and also from that part of the order which denies her motion to set aside the same judgment.
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Appeals from a judgment and an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee countj: LawReuce W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff appeals from that part of the order which allows the defendant attorneys’ fees on her motion to set aside the judgment. Defendant appeals from the judgment and also from that part of the order which denies her motion to set aside the same judgment. The plaintiff and defendant intermarried in the state of Iowa in October, 1893, afterwards coming to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and there residing for more than two years before this action was commenced in March, 1916. One child…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweilee, J.
The parts of sec. 2374 of the Statutes of 1915, in force when this action was tried, material here, were as follows:
“1. When a judgment of divorce from the bonds of matrimony is granted in this state by a court, such judgment, so far as it determines the status of the parties, shall not be effective, except for the purposes of an appeal to review the same, until the expiration of one year from the date of the entry-of such judgment.
“2. So far as said judgment determines the status of the parties the court shall have power to vacate or modify the same, for sufficient cause shown, upon its own…
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