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20 Wis. 252

Ward v. Ward

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1866

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1866-01-15

Action for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony. The summons, dated January 25,1865, states that the complaint “ will be filed,” &c. An order of service by publication was obtained on the day of the date of the summons, and the same was published for six successive weeks, the first publication being on the 28th of January, and the last on the 4th of March, 1865. The complaint was filed April 11th, 1865.

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Decided 1866-01-15

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Cole, J.

¶1The complaint in this case is fatally defective. It does not show a willful desertion of the wife by the husband for the term of one year next preceding the filing of the complaint, and therefore does not bring the case within subdivision 4, sec. 9, ch. Ill, R. S. Nor does it state a good ground of divorce under subdivision 3, sec. 10. That clause provides that a divorce from bed and board forever, or for a limited time, may be adjudged on the complaint of the wife, when the husband, being of sufficient ability, shall neglect orrefu.se to provide for her. There is no allegation in the complaint that the husband, being of sufficient ability, refuses or neglects to provide for the plaintiff.

¶2Neither is there any affidavit that no answer has been served. There is a paper included in the record which was undoubtedly intended as an affidavit that no answer had been served, but it is not sworn to, and therefore is of no effect.

¶3By the Court. — The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to dismiss the complaint.

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