Swanson v. Swanson

The parties to this action intermarried at Tacoma, Washington, May 1, 1946. October 23, 1946, the plaintiff, Eleanor Swanson, filed her complaint asking for a divorce from her husband, Ernest H. Swanson, for alimony in the sum of one hundred dollars a month, for an award by way of attorney’s fees, and that certain property be set over to her as her separate estate. In her complaint, plaintiff alleged that the defendant had failed to provide for her; that he was addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors to excess; that he had assaulted plaintiff, and that it was impossible for the parties to…