Olsen v. People ex rel. Buenger

On the 21 st day of August, 1905, the relator appellees, Henry Buenger and Eliza Grimes, applied to the appellant, the county clerk of the county of Cook, for a license to be joined in marriage. Eliza Grimes had been lawfully married to one Herman Mischler, and on the 28th day of June, 1905, a decree was entered in the circuit court of Cook county dissolving such marriage relation at the application of said Eliza, on the ground that her said husband had been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty to her and had deserted and abandoned her. The county clerk refused to issue the marriage…