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144 Wis. 380

Herrmann v. Herrmann

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 10, 1911

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1911-01-10

Tak&ANT, Circuit Judge. This is an action for divorce on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment, in which the defendant counterclaimed and asked a divorce from the plaintiff on the same ground. The plaintiff was a widower forty-seven years old at the time of his second marriage in January, 1907. His first wife died in 1905. There were three children born of the first marriage, two girls and a boy.

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Affirmed · Decided 1911-01-10

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SiebecKER, J.

¶1The defendant assails that part of the judgment allowing her the sum of $3,500 out of the plaintiff’s •estate as a final division and distribution thereof. The statute provides that such award shall be made with “due regard to the legal and equitable rights of each party” in the light of all the attending circumstances showing the character and sit-nation of the parties, their estates, and his ability. Sec. 2364, Stats. (1898). The foregoing statement of the facts, conditions, and circumstances on which the trial court acted in making the award show that the two years of married life of the parties was devoid of all co-operation between the husband and wife for fostering and promoting their mutual interests or ■•those of the plaintiff’s children. The court found the plaint-*384ill’s conduct violative of bis duties as husband, tbat tbe defendant was entitled to a decree divorcing them from tbe bonds, of matrimony, and tbat a decree for a final division and distribution of bis estate would further tbeir respective interests. Upon all of tbe facts shown we are led to tbe conclusion tbat tbe judgment was warranted. In tbe light of tbe case presented we do not feel justified in bolding tbat tbe trial court’s award is an unjust one, and we cannot, therefore, disturb it on this appeal.

¶2By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.

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