Gordon v. Gordon
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry M. Shepard, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
Two questions are presented by this record: First, whether the court erred in striking out the answer of the defendant, George B. Gordon, for his failure to pay temporary alimony, as decreed by the court; and second, whether Ada E. Gordon, the complainant, was guilty of adultery by her marriage with Harvey Wilson on the 7th day of May, 1887, and her subsequent cohabitation with him as his wife from that date until the 2d day of March, 1889, when she discovered that her decree for divorce was invalid.
The questions involved are important, and not entirely free from difficulty. It is clear that…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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