Reading v. Reading

—This is an action for divorce, a division of the community property, and for the custody of the children. The grounds upon which plaintiff relies are extreme cruelty and habitual intemperance. In the first count it is alleged that plaintiff and defendant intermarried at Oroville, Butte County, January 8, 1873, and that plaintiff has been a resident of the state of California for more than ten years prior to the commencement of the action. The plaintiff then proceeds to allege specific acts of cruelty by defendant, at their residence in Oroville, extending from May 8,1884, to December, 1890.…