Youngs v. Youngs
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lobin C. Collins, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lobin C. Collins, Judge, presiding. Is the excessive use, for over two years, of any narcotic substance which intoxicates its victim, sufficient ground for a divorce under the statute permitting divorce for habitual drunkenness for the space of two years ? Bishop on Marriage and Divorce, (6th ed.) 813; Barber v. Barber, 14 L. B. 375. Those acts which affect the life, health, or even the comfort, of the party aggrieved, and give a reasonable apprehension of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
This was a bill in chancery, brought hy Marie A. Youngs against Phineas B. Youngs, her husband, in the Circuit Court of Cook county, praying for a divorce. The parties were mar-' ried at G-alva, Illinois, February 12, 1879, and shortly thereafter took up their residence at Aurora, Kane county, Illinois, where they resided until about the first of March, 1887. One child, a daughter, was born as the fruit of their marriage, who, at the date last mentioned, was about five years of age. On or shortly after March 1,1887, the complainant left her husband and went to the city of Chicago where her…
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