Schoen v. Schoen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Gustave G. Gei-irz, Circuit Judge. Action for divorce. Plaintiff and defendant were married in the state of New York on November 2, 1884. At the time of trial plaintiff was sixty-two years of age and the defendant fifty-nine years of age. Two children, Hortense, aged twenty-nine, and Edgar, aged twenty-six, were the living issue of said marriage.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Gustave G. Gei-irz, Circuit Judge. Action for divorce. Plaintiff and defendant were married in the state of New York on November 2, 1884. At the time of trial plaintiff was sixty-two years of age and the defendant fifty-nine years of age. Two children, Hortense, aged twenty-nine, and Edgar, aged twenty-six, were the living issue of said marriage. The defendant is a man of considerable business energy and has had a varied business career. Prior to 1898 he had been in various businesses in different parts of the country. During…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed July 13, 1921:
Owen, J.
The questions raised upon this appeal are almost entirely questions of fact. The record is voluminous, the printed case containing approximately 1,500 pages. Anything like a complete review of the evidence would prolong this opinion to an inordinate length. In fact the judgment well might be affirmed without an opinion. The contest, however, has been a stubborn one from the beginning. The plaintiff has experienced great difficulty in having the case prepared for presentation to this court, the time for the preparation and service of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pfingsten v. PfingstenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1916
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- Gordon v. GordonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1955
- Owen v. OwenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1922