Duchossois v. Duchossois

Opinion by Hirt, J.,

In 1934 libellant filed his libel in divorce charging cruel and barbarous treatment, indignities to the person, and desertion. A decree was entered on the charge of indignities alone.

The parties were married on February 17, 1931. Their acquaintance was of long standing and for four or five years they had been engaged to be married at an indefinite date in the future. They had been intimate and the marriage was precipitated by the discovery that the respondent was pregnant. She, for 16 years had been employed as a stenographer or secretary; the libellant conducted a small…