Adams v. Storey
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This writ of error was sued out to reverse a decree of the ■circuit court of Cook county, assigning dower in a lot of ground fronting twenty feet and four inches on Dearborn street, in Chicago, and being a part of lots 1 and 2, of block 57, in the ■original town of Chicago, to Maria P. Storey, the defendant in error.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This writ of error was sued out to reverse a decree of the ■circuit court of Cook county, assigning dower in a lot of ground fronting twenty feet and four inches on Dearborn street, in Chicago, and being a part of lots 1 and 2, of block 57, in the ■original town of Chicago, to Maria P. Storey, the defendant in error. Prior to February 17,1868, defendant in error was the wife of Wilbur F. Storey, and on that day was divorced from him by said circuit court, on the ground of his willful desertion. During…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
The matter of the decree.of February 17,1868, allowing to Maria P. Storey, the defendant in error herein, for her alimony and maintenance, the-sum of $2000 per annum, “for so long as she may he and remain sole and unmarried,” was before this court at a former term, and it was held that the annual allowance of $2000, to be paid according to the provisions of that decree, did not terminate with the life of the husband, but was binding upon his estate after his death, and should be continued to her so long as she lives and remains sole and unmarried. (Storey v. Storey et al. 125 Ill. 608.) In…
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