Griffin v. Griffin

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit between husband and wife, brought by the wife, to obtain a decree for alimony. It exhibits a lamentable picture of family discord, resulting from unrestrained passions and perverse temper. The conduct of both is alike reprehensible. The wife seems occasionally to have been actuated by the very spirit of mischief, resorting to every species of annoyance, for the avowed purpose of irritating and provoking hex-husband. The husband, at times, drank to excess, and when in a state of intoxication used, on three or four different…