Kane v. Kane

Margaret Kane, the defendant in error herein, was granted a decree of divorce from Richard Kane by the Circuit Court of Cook county. The cause was Contested and no certificate of evidence was filed therein. The decree, after finding the marriage of the parties and the jurisdictional facts, found that the defendant had “been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty towards the complainant since the marriage, as charged in the complainant’s bill of complaint.”

The plaintiff in error asks the reversal of the decree on the ground that this finding (which, together with the general recital afterward…