Keeler v. Keeler
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. Action by the plaintiff to obtain a divorce from her husband. The complaint, after alleging £he marriage of the parties, in the state of Michigan, in 1859, their removal to this state in 1866, and plaintiff’s continued residence here since that time, and that no children have been born to them, states the following as grounds for a divorce: “That defendant is a person of very indolent and shiftless habits, and utterly averse…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. Action by the plaintiff to obtain a divorce from her husband. The complaint, after alleging £he marriage of the parties, in the state of Michigan, in 1859, their removal to this state in 1866, and plaintiff’s continued residence here since that time, and that no children have been born to them, states the following as grounds for a divorce: “That defendant is a person of very indolent and shiftless habits, and utterly averse to doing any labor or following any business whatever to earn a livelihood; that, when married, they held and owned…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
There can be little doubt about the sufficiency of the complaint. The counsel for the defendant does not seriously contest it. It states a cause on the part of the wife for a divorce from the bond of matrimony, under the provisions of subd. 3, § 10 and § 11, ch. 111, R. S.; and, as no bill of exceptions was taken, the proofs are not before us.
The other question is as to the jurisdiction of the court over the person of the defendant. Did the court acquire such jurisdiction % We are of opinion that it did, on the ground that the stipulation signed by the defendant was an appearance in the…
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