Gibbons v. Gibbons

After trial it is decided:

1. The defendant’s conduct, because of frequent intoxication, warranted plaintiff in leaving him because her health and bodily safety, and that of their child, were in danger.

2. After a long period of self-support and exclusive custody of the child plaintiff brought this suit after placing the child in a school where visitation by the defendant was, in effect, impossible ; the controversy, by writ, over the custody, indicates that plaintiff’s main object in suing was to obtain sole custody and thwart visitation.

3. Her actions while living apart while self-supporting,…