Meares v. Meares

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree granting a divorce a vinculo matrimonii to the wife on the ground that the husband “became addicted after marriage to habitual drunkenness”, and also awarding to the wife custody of the parties’ two minor children, a boy of eight and a girl o-f five.

The parties were married in 1942. At that, time, the -husband (appellant) was a resident of the State of Florida and the wife (appellee) resided in Houston County, Alabama. The wife then moved to Florida with her husband where they lived together continuously as man and wife, except for short…