Rawson v. Rawson
Appellate Court of Illinois
. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Henry M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. This was a bill brought in the Superior Court September 29, 1886, by appellee, as the wife, against appellant, as the husband, under the provisions of the statute for separate maintenance, setting forth that she was married to the appellant March 1, 1886; that she lived with him until June 23? same year, when he left her, and has not lived with her since; and averring that she was…
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. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Henry M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. This was a bill brought in the Superior Court September 29, 1886, by appellee, as the wife, against appellant, as the husband, under the provisions of the statute for separate maintenance, setting forth that she was married to the appellant March 1, 1886; that she lived with him until June 23? same year, when he left her, and has not lived with her since; and averring that she was living separate and apart from her said husband without her fault. She asked for a decree of separate maintenance. She…
1Opinion of the CourtMcAllister, J.
We regard the law as well settled that, when the wife brings suit against her husband for either a divorce or separate maintenance, and applies to the court for an allowance out of her husband’s means to enable her to prosecute the suit, or for temporary alimony, and it is made to appear that she has sufficient separate property for the purpose, the application should be denied. 2 Bishop on Mar. and Div., Sec. 394, and cases in note 1; Schouler on Husband and Wife, Sec. 554; Kenemer v. Kenemer, 26 Ind. 330; Maxwell v. Maxwell, 28 Hun, 566.
In Collins v. Collins, 80 N. Y. 12, the court says: “…
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