Legal Opinion

Brixel v. Brixel

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 23, 1907PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. In its original form this was a bill for divorce and for partition of lot 12 and the east two and one-half feet of lot 13, in block 2, in Demarest & Kamerling’s Columbian subdivision of the west half of the south-east quarter of section 1, in township 39, north, range 13, east of the third principal meridian.

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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. In its original form this was a bill for divorce and for partition of lot 12 and the east two and one-half feet of lot 13, in block 2, in Demarest & Kamerling’s Columbian subdivision of the west half of the south-east quarter of section 1, in township 39, north, range 13, east of the third principal meridian. The grounds alleged upon which Minna Brixel predicated her right to a divorce was extreme and repeated cruelty. Leopold Brixel filed his answer, in which he denied all of the material allegations of…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Vickers

It is apparent that this decree will have to be reversed if for no other reason than that there is no evidence in the record supporting the decree as to the two and one-half feet off the east side of lot 13. The master finds, from the evidence, that appellee is entitled to a partition of lot 12, and recommends a decree as to that lot. It appears from the abstract and record that appellee’s counsel offered in evidence a “deed from Hans G. Thorenson and wife to Leopold Brixel and Minna Brixel, dated September 29, 1903, which being objected to, objection was overruled and deed admitted in…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Baker v. RockabrandIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
  2. Hursen v. HursenIllinois Supreme Court · 1904

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Thomas v. ThomasSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1910
  2. Harbour v. HarbourSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1912
  3. Richardson v. RichardsonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1940
  4. McCally v. McCallyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1968
  5. Osborne v. OsborneDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1930

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