Keating v. Keating
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Recorder’s Court of the city of Chicago; the Hon. Evart Yan Burén, Judge, presiding. This was a suit for a divorce, instituted in the court below, by the defendant in error, Bridget Keating, against the plaintiff in error, James Keating. The complainant obtained a decree, and the court gave to her, as alimony, the fee of premises belonging to the defendant, besides a sum of money.
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Writ of Error to the Recorder’s Court of the city of Chicago; the Hon. Evart Yan Burén, Judge, presiding. This was a suit for a divorce, instituted in the court below, by the defendant in error, Bridget Keating, against the plaintiff in error, James Keating. The complainant obtained a decree, and the court gave to her, as alimony, the fee of premises belonging to the defendant, besides a sum of money. The extent and form of the allowance of alimony is objected to, and assigned as error by the defendant, who brings the case to this court by writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
It is assigned as error in this case, that the court gave to the complainant, as alimony, the fee of the premises known as 205 Third avenue, instead of a life estate, besides a sum of money, said premises constituting more than one-half of tlio defendants property. The counsel for defendant in error seek to justify this on the ground that these premises were bought with her money. The only proof of this is a recital in the decree, that the material allegations of the bill had been proved, which may have been intended, by the court, to apply to the grounds upon which the divorce was claimed,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Von Glahn v. Von GlahnIllinois Supreme Court · 1867
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