Doughty v. Doughty

The Chiee Justice.

This is a bill for divorce, exhibited by a wife against her husband. The grounds laid are, desertion and adultery. In order to prepare the way for such a decree, the complainant asks that a judgment, rendered by the’ circuit court of Whiteside county, Illinois, in a suit by her husband, the appellant, against her, declaring her marriage with him to be null and void, shall be avoided by a decree. Whether this judgment has a legal existence or not, is the only contested question in this cases for, on the assumption of its invalidity, it is not denied that the appellant has…