Bennett v. Tomlinson

Decedent and claimant intermarried in Illinois, where they were then living, on April 2, 1885, and thereupon took up their matrimonial domicile in that state. They never had a matrimonial domicile elsewhere. 0-a February 15, 1897, decedent filed in one of th~ circuit courts of Illinois a bill for divorce fo~~ desertion. Claimant answered, and also filed cross bill for separate maintenance. On March 19, 1897, decree in that cause was entered, sustaining the cross bill, and allowing claimant $144 per year, commencing March 19, 1897, payable in monthly installments in advance on the 19th day of…