Cole v. Cole

The original bill of complaint in this case was filed to obtain a decree for a “separate maintenance from the bed and board of the defendant,” for the custody of three minor children of the parties, for alimony, and that certain real estate of the parties be “set off and aside as the separate property” of the plaintiff, as part of the provision for her separate maintenance. The grounds for the decree, as stated in the original bill, were as follows:

“That said Charles W. Cole has become an habitual drunkard since the marriage herein set forth, and is so habitually addicted to the use of…