Abbott v. Abbott
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William Hartzell, Judge, presiding. This case comes from the circuit court of St. Clair county by appeal. Cora Belle Abbott and George B. Abbott were formerly wife and husband.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William Hartzell, Judge, presiding. This case comes from the circuit court of St. Clair county by appeal. Cora Belle Abbott and George B. Abbott were formerly wife and husband. On September 12, 1899, she filed her bill in said circuit court for a divorce, and later a petition for alimony pending the suit, in which petition she alleged that the husband owned real and personal property of the value of $40,000 and that he had an annual income of $5000. This petition was sworn to. She thereafter filed a bill for injunction to restrain…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The attempt to engraft this suit, by cross-bill, upon the divorce proceeding after the decree in that action had been rendered was wholly irregular. The sworn allegations of the principal parties in the petition for alimony pendente lite and bill for injunction, and the answers thereto, as well as the testimony in support of and against these allegations, are irreconcilable with the claim of each of them to the ownership of the property here made. These matters are not, however, now of controlling importance.
The claim of L. D. Abbott and H. M. Bradford, denied in the cross-bill of Cora Belle…
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