Whittaker v. Whittaker

On October 26, 1887, Maggie T. Whittaker filed her bill in chancery in the Superior Court of Cook county, against David H. Whittaker, praying for a divorce, the grounds for relief set up in her bill being habitual drunkenness and desertion. The defendant being a resident of New York, service on him was made by publication, and he failing to appear, the bill was taken pro confesso against him, and on an ex parte hearing, the court found that both the charges made by the bill were sustained by the evidence, and rendered a decree divorcing the parties, giving the complainant the custody of her…