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WILL OF BALDWIN

260 Wis. 195 (1951)

WILL OF BALDWIN: MARINE NATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK OF MILWAUKEE, Executor, and another, Respondents, vs. OUTGAMIE COUNTY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

December 4, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was submitted for the appellant on the brief of Raymond P. Dohr of Appleton, corporation counsel of Outagamie county, and for the respondent Marine National Exchange Bank of Milwaukee on the briefs of Miller, Mack & Fairchild, attorneys, and Lynford Lardner, Jr., Joseph R. Barnett, and Jerome J. Klos of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and for the respondent Milwaukee county on the brief of William J. McCauley, district attorney, Oliver L. O'Boyle, corporation counsel, and Robert P. Russell, assistant corporation counsel.

BROADFOOT, J.

Under the common law a wife's residence follows that of the husband. That rule, however, has been deviated from in Wisconsin in divorce cases. In the case of Gray v. Gary, 232 Wis. 400, 287 N. W. 708, the husband moved to Chippewa Falls because of his work. His wife refused to move and remained in Eau Claire. After fifteen years of separation she sued for divorce from bed and board, but the court awarded...

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