Legal Opinion

Meyer v. Meyer

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 27, 1896Published

Divorce.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Gary

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case we are asked to review and reverse the decision of the judge of the Circuit Court, made upon the testimony of a great many witnesses whom he saw and heard, and of the value of whose testimony he had therefore much better opportunity to form a correct judgment than we have. Rackley v. Rackley, 151 Ill. 332. And we find that the appellant in asking us to reverse that decision is very largely proceeding upon an erroneous theory, which is, that what the appellant herself said in explanation of appearances upon her person…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Treleaven v. DixonIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
  2. Springfield Consolidated Railway Co. v. WelschIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  3. Rackley v. RackleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  4. Elguth v. GrueszkaAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894

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