Roth v. Roth
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John A. Jameson, Judge, presiding. The record in this case shows that John George Both, a subject of the kingdom of Wiirtemberg, came to this country, and settled in Chicago at an early day, and there accumulated a large amount of property, consisting chiefly of real estate, which is the subject of controversy in this suit; that in 1855 he married, in Chicago, Madelaine Moser, a native and subject of France, who had a…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John A. Jameson, Judge, presiding. The record in this case shows that John George Both, a subject of the kingdom of Wiirtemberg, came to this country, and settled in Chicago at an early day, and there accumulated a large amount of property, consisting chiefly of real estate, which is the subject of controversy in this suit; that in 1855 he married, in Chicago, Madelaine Moser, a native and subject of France, who had a short time before accompanied him bn a return visit from that country to this; that in 1856 they returned to Europe, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
In the view we take of this ease we do not deem it necessary to follow counsel in the wide range their exhaustive and elaborate arguments have taken, but shall confine ourselves to one or two of the topics discussed in the briefs, which we regard as conclusive of the controversy, whatever may be our views with respect to the other issues in the case.
So far as the marriage between Roth and Madelaine Moser is concerned, we have no hesitancy in saying that for all purposes, in this State, it was a legal and valid marriage, notwithstanding Roth, at the time, was a subject of the kingdom of…
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