Case ID: ill-app_187/html/0165-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harry O. Whitlock, Appellee, v. Jessie Nickerson Whitlock, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 19,288.
    (Not to he reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Divorce, § 46
      
      —when finding that wife was guilty of adultery sustained by the evidence. On bill by the husband for divorce charging the wife with adultery, a finding of the chancellor that the wife was guilty of adultery held sustained by the evidence.
    2. Divorce, § 17*—what does not constitute recrimination. Where it appears that the party seeking a divorce on the ground of extreme and repeated cruelty has been guilty of adultery, she will not be granted a divorce and the fact that the husband has been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty is not a sufficient recriminatory defense to a bill by him for divorce on the ground of adultery.
    
      Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. William E. Dever, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1913.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed May 21, 1914.
    Statement of the Case.
    Bill by Harry 0. Whitlock against Jessie Nickerson Whitlock for divorce charging defendant with having committed adultery with a certain person named in the bill. Defendant filed a cross-bill for divorce charging complainant with extreme and repeated cruelty. Answers were filed to said bill and cross-bill by the respective defendants thereto, denying the material allegations therein. The chancellor found defendant guilty of the charge of adultery and a decree was entered granting complainant a divorce and dismissing the cross-bill for want of equity. From the decree, defendant appeals.
    David K. Tone, for appellant; William E. and Lewis F. Mason, of counsel.
    Short, Davis & Rust, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vola XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Scanlan

delivered the opinion of the court.