Lancaster v. Lancaster
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the City Court of Alton; the Hon. James E. Dunnegan, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
(trees', P. J.
This was an action in debt brought by appellee to recover from appellant monthly installments which, by a decree in divorce proceedings between said parties, were ordered to be paid by appellant to appellee for the support of their infant child, the care and custody of which was decreed to appellee. The pleas interposed and relied on as a defense were non-assumpsit, and a special plea setting up the terms of the decree, and averring that about February 1, 1885, plaintiff refused to allow him to see his child, at her house, as provided by said decree, and has ever since persisted…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Harlow v. BoswellIllinois Supreme Court · 1853
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