Williams v. Williams
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Kenosha County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe : “ This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover dower in certain lands in the possession of the defendant. “ The plaintiff bases her claim for dower upon the allegation that she is the widow of one Lewis "Williams, Sr., deceased. “ The only question which is seriously litigated is, whether the plaintiff is the widow of said deceased.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Kenosha County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe : “ This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover dower in certain lands in the possession of the defendant. “ The plaintiff bases her claim for dower upon the allegation that she is the widow of one Lewis "Williams, Sr., deceased. “ The only question which is seriously litigated is, whether the plaintiff is the widow of said deceased. The evidence shows that the plaintiff was married by a formal marriage ceremony to said Lewis Williams, Sr., on the 9th day of May, 1870, and tends to show that…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The learned counsel for the plaintiff and respondent insists that she was entitled to recover upon either of two theories: First, that if she was the lawful wife of William Jones at the time she manned Lewis Williams, Sr., she was afterwards lawfully divorced from said Jones about two years and nine months before the death of Lewis Williams, Sr., and, as during all that time she and the said Williams lived and cohabited together as husband and wife, and she was all that time spoken of by the said Williams as his wife and treated by him as such, and during all that time she spoke of said…
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