Sullivan v. Learned

The record in this cause presents for our decision two questions:

First. Did the court below possess the power to grant the relief asked ?

Second. Did the facts recited in the complaint justify the granting of the relief prayed for ?

It appears from the complaint, that Jeremiah Sullivan and Drusilla Sullivan were husband and wife until the 2d day of February, 1870, when, by the judgment of the Madison Common Pleas, the marriage contract was set aside, and the par*253ties were divorced] that, by such decree, the care, custody, and education of Lawrence Sullivan, one of their children, was given to…