Willems v. Willems
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill to Set Aside a Decree for Divorce.—Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County ; the Hon. Elbridge Hanecy, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1897. Beversed and remanded. Opinion filed December 16, 1897.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sears
Defendant in error, formerly the husband of plaintiff in error, filed his bill in chancery in the Circuit Court of Cook County, on February 2, 1897, by which he prayed that a decree of divorce entered against him in another cause in said court on May 8,1896, in favor of plaintiff in error, then his wife, might “ be set aside and held to be void.”. The bill was filed as an original bill, no leave to file having been asked or granted.
Three demurrers ■ were sustained to this bill and its successive amendments. On April 21,1897, defendant in error tiled his last amended bill, to which plaintiff…
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