Dorrance v. Dorrance

This is an action by O. F. Dorrance against Bettie Dorrance for a divorce and adjustment and settlement of property rights. Plaintiff relies on a common-law marriage.

Defendant in her answer denies that such marriage ever existed and affirmatively pleads that they were married by ceremonial marriage in 1903, that a divorce was granted on her petition in August, 1921, but by way of cross-petition she pleads in the alternative that if the court should find that the marriage relation existed between the parties, she was then entitled to a divorce on the ground of habitual drunkenness and gross…