Klekamp v. Klekamp

Amelia Klekamp filed her bill for divorce in the circuit court of Cook county March 10, 1914, against Robert H. Klekamp, appellant, alleging that she was lawfully married to him March 17, 1896. She charged him in her bill with extreme and repeated cruelty from a short time after their marriage until the filing of the bill and with habitual drunkenness for the five years last past, and prayed for divorce, alimony and the adjustment of their property rights. Appellant answered the bill, denying every allegation thereof except that of marriage. On May 16, 1914, the court entered an order that…