Payne v. Payne

Dude Payne, by his bill of complaint against Willie Mavis Payne, sought to obtain a divorce and the custody of Jimmy Payne, a child of the marriage. He alleged that she had been guilty of habitual cruel and inhuman *816treatment toward him, and that she had abandoned the child. Process was obtained by publication.

The defendant, then living in Chicago, appeared and answered. She denied all of the material allegations of the bill. She set up that she had previously obtained a divorce, and attached a copy of such proceedings. She denied that she had abandoned the child, but, on the contrary, alleged…