Reifschneider v. Reifschneider
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honore, Judge, presiding. April 3, 1907, appellee filed in the circuit court of Cook county a bill for separate maintenance against appellant, alleging their marriage on August 13, 1904, and that appellee had lived with appellant as his wife until about February 26, 1905, when she was compelled to separate from him.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honore, Judge, presiding. April 3, 1907, appellee filed in the circuit court of Cook county a bill for separate maintenance against appellant, alleging their marriage on August 13, 1904, and that appellee had lived with appellant as his wife until about February 26, 1905, when she was compelled to separate from him. After the filing of the bill and before the filing of appellant’s answer an order was entered by the court that appellant pay appellee…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
August 13, 1904, the parties to this litigation, one being a little more and the other a little less than nineteen years of age, went to Hammond, Indiana, from their homes in Chicago for the purpose of being married, and the ceremony was there performed by the city judge of Hammond. They had become acquainted in a high school in Chicago which they had recently been attending, and had been keeping company and were engaged for some time previous. Appellant expressed a desire that they be married but that it be kept secret until he became of age, on the ground that he was not able to support a…
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