Curley v. Curley

On April 22, 1940, respondent filed in the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida, her sworn bill of complaint against her husband, the petitioner here, seeking a divorce a vinculo matrimonii on grounds viz.: (a) habitual intemperance; (b) extreme cruelty; and (c) the indulgence in a violent and ungovernable temper. The bill of complaint alleged that Marie Phillips Curley is now (on April 22, 1940) and has been for more than ninety days last past and immediately preceding the filing of the bill of complaint an actual continuous bona fide resident of Miami, Dade County, Florida, and at the time…