Babbitt v. Babbitt
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Livingston county; the Hon.'Charles H. Wood, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
This was an application to the circuit court of Livingston county, bv Bhoda Babbitt, against her husband, Ezra M. Babbitt, for separate maintenance, under the act of March 5, 1867. The court decreed as prayed, and the defendant appeals.
The first section of the act of 1867 provides, that married women who, without their fault, now live, or hereafter may live separate and apart from their husbands, may have their remedy in equity, in their own names, respectively, against their husbands, for a reasonable support and maintenance while they so live, or have so lived separate and apart, etc.
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