Thatcher v. Thatcher
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was heard before Baugh, Judge, and a jury, at September term, 1854. The opinion of the court furnishes all the facts necessary to a full understanding of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
This was a bill for a divorce, filed under our statute by the wife against the husband, charging acts of extreme and repeated cruelty. There was a trial by jury and a verdict returned finding all the allegations- of the bill sustained, except the allegation that she was a dutiful wife, whereupon the court dismissed the bill at the complainant’s cost. This verdict was substantially a verdict for the complainant and prima facie entitled her to a decree. If the court thought from the evidence that the finding should have been the other way, it should have set the verdict aside and…
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