Wakefield v. Wakefield
Oregon Supreme Court
From Lake: L. F. Conn, Judge. In Banc. This is a suit for a divorce. The complaint charges the defendant with acts of cruelty and infidelity. The defendant, in his answer, denies the allegations of the complaint and in an affirmative answer also charges the plaintiff with cruelty and infidelity. The reply put in issue the averments of the answer. A large amount of testimony was taken consisting of over five hundred typewritten pages.
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From Lake: L. F. Conn, Judge. In Banc. This is a suit for a divorce. The complaint charges the defendant with acts of cruelty and infidelity. The defendant, in his answer, denies the allegations of the complaint and in an affirmative answer also charges the plaintiff with cruelty and infidelity. The reply put in issue the averments of the answer. A large amount of testimony was taken consisting of over five hundred typewritten pages. The Circuit Court found and decreed that both defendant and plaintiff were, equally at fault, and that neither is entitled to any relief in a court of equity.…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
1. It appears from the record that the plaintiff and defendant intermarried on April 10, 1903, and that there are two children, the issue of such marriage, namely, Daisy Wakefield, a daughter of the age of fourteen years, and Orin Wakefield, a son eleven years of age. At the time of their marriage plaintiff and defendant each had a small number of livestock consisting of horses and cattle. They re- . sided at different places in Lake County and accumulated about $12,000 in property. ,The parties have , continually for the past few years had serious marital difficulties. The whole record which…
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