Brandt v. Brandt

This is a consolidated appeal taken by the defendant, Edward V. Brandt, from the final action which the circuit court took in the following three cases: (1) a suit for divorce and property distribution; (2) a suit between the same parties which sought partition of the real property which the couple accumulated in the period in which they assumed they were lawfully married; (3) a replevin action between the same parties concerning some personal property possessed by the defendant and acquired in the period of the putative marriage. In each case Ella Mae Brandt was the plaintiff and the…