Whelen v. Whelen

This divorce suit was begun in January, 1895, by Mrs. Whelen to obtain a legal separation from her husband William, and the payment of alimony for the support of herself and. her children. Yery little more of the case need be stated than will suffice to explain the proceedings and sustain the judgment.

The parties intermarried in 1876 in Illinois, and lived together as husband and wife until about a year before the commencement of the suit. If the allegations of the complaint were sustained by proof, Mrs. Whelen was entitled to a divorce. She charged acts and conduct which under the law and…