Johnson v. Johnson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM WAUKESHA OIROUIT COURT. This was a bill filed in tbe Waukesha, Circuit Court for a divorce and alimony.
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APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM WAUKESHA OIROUIT COURT. This was a bill filed in tbe Waukesha, Circuit Court for a divorce and alimony. Tbe following are tbe material statements of tbe bill: ■ “ She further represents, as aforesaid, that soon after their marriage, and after he bad returned from Michigan as aforesaid, he assured her he had been to Michigan, .and disposed of all his lands and property there, so that she should never have any of his estate, and continued to repeat the same story to her very often since; but sbe is well advised and believes it is conveyed, if at all, in trust for himself,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Oourt,
Cole, J.
This was an application on the part of the appellee, for a divorce from the bond of matrimony. The ground of the application appears to be cruel and inhuman treatment by her husband, based upon subdivision 5, of section 9, chap. 79, B. 8.; and upon subdivision 3, section 10, of the same chapter, which latter provision is made a substantive cause of divorce, by section 11, whenever, in the opinion of the court, the circumstances of the case are such that it will be discreet and proper to grant it.
■ The appellee, in the bill of complaint, after unnecessarily detailing at…
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