Lohmuller v. Lohmuller

This is a suit for divorce instituted by appellee against his wife, who is the appellant herein. The cause was submitted to a jury, and resulted in a verdict for a divorce in favor of appellee, upon which the court rendered a judgment dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties, and awarding the custody of Lucile Ursula Lohmuller, aged nine years, and William J. Lohmuller, aged six years, their children, to the appellant, their mother.

If an object lesson were needed to show the vicious and degrading effects of the act of 1897, which with ruthless hand swept aside the beneficent rule…