Jenkins v. Jenkins

On the 7th day of June, 1878, the appellee exhibited her bill in chancery in the Circuit Court of Cook county against her husband, the appellant, praying for a decree directing the defendant therein to pay her a sum sufficient for her reasonable support and maintenance, and a further sum sufficient to enable her to prosecute her said suit.

This bill was filed in pursuance of Section 22, Ch. 69, of the Bevised Statutes of 1877, which provides as follows: “ That married women who without their fault now live or may hereafter live separate and apart from their husbands, may have their remedy in…