McKenna v. McKenna
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;-—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
This was a bill filed to the July term, 1896, of the circuit court of Cook county, for separate maintenance, by one Julia McKenna, the plaintiff in error, against James McKenna, the defendant in error, basing her claim on an alleged common law marriage contract made in 1862. The defendant in error filed his answer, denying the allegations in the bill that he was married to the plaintiff in error, and denying that he lived and cohabited with her since the year 1862, or at any time previous thereto, as his wife. He alleges that after the great Chicago fire, in October, 1871, he rented a cottage…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Dickerson v. BrownMississippi Supreme Court · 1873
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