Bates v. Bates
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
Appellant having filed her bill for a divorce from appellee, he was defaulted for want of an answer, and upon an ex parte hearing a» decree was entered October 21,1895, finding appellee guilty of habitual drunkenness, dissolving the marriage and awarding to appellant the custody of Chester Bates, their son, then five years old. Appellee, having been denied the right to visit the boy, filed his petition May 6, 1896, for a modification of the decree, asking that he might have opportunity for visiting the child and that the child might be allowed to visit him. On a hearing of this motion the…
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