Reeves v. Reeves

Citations

• 54 Ill. 332

Syllabus

<p>1. Marriage—where one of the parties is already married. The marriage of a woman with a man whose wife by a former marriage is still living, undivorced, is void, and her subsequent marriage with another is valid, although her husband by such void marriage is living.</p> <p>2. Bill op exceptions. A bill of exceptions not signed by the judge of the court below, will not be considered a part of the record.</p> <p>3. Doweb—of lands sold by the husband prior to marriage. Upon the hearing of a petition for dower, the evidence showed that the deceased had given a deed of trust, before his marriage with the petitioner, on an undivided half of the premises, and one of the defendants claimed by virtue of a sale under such deed: Held, it was error for the court to decree the dower a lien on the whole of the premises.</p> <p>4. And the decree failing to determine by whom the mesne profits were to be paid, was defective in that regard; one of the defendants alone having had possession of the premises, they should have been adjudged against him only. -</p>