Keegan v. Geraghty
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John G. Rogers, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
Michael R. Keegan, and his wife, Margaret, resided many years in Columbia county, Wisconsin. They had no children, but in 1862 adopted Mary Ann Keenan, the plaintiff in error, as their daughter, pursuant to the provisions of chap. 49, of the Revised Statutes of Wisconsin of 1858. In 1869, Keegan and his wife removed from Wisconsin to Chicago, in this State, and about this time Mary Ann, being then of lawful age, went to Boston, Mass., where she has ever since resided. Margaret Keegan died in 1874, and Michael R. Keegan not long afterwards married Bedelía M. Geraghty, daughter of Peter…
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