Hooper v. Hooper
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for Waupaca county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from that part of the judgment in a divorce action awarding a permanent allowance to plaintiff. Plaintiff was sixty and defendant sixty-one years of age at the time of the trial.
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Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for Waupaca county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from that part of the judgment in a divorce action awarding a permanent allowance to plaintiff. Plaintiff was sixty and defendant sixty-one years of age at the time of the trial. They had lived together as man and wife about twenty years, during which time plaintiff helped to rear to ages of maturity five children of defendant by his first wife, who were from four to seventeen years of age at the time of the second marriage. When such second marriage took place defendant was worth…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
Appellant’s complaint seems to be wholly of the award of a gross sum of money as part of the permanent alimony. The monthly allowance of $100, it is suggested, may be materially increased, if thought best, without complaint from appellant, if the decree giving plaintiff an estate of her own out of appellant’s property be reversed. "We have, with care, searched appellant’s brief in vain for some good reason or the citation of some authority to support his claim. It is quite novel. It is, as we understand it, that in such a case no provision should be made for a divorced wife other than an…
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