Myrick v. Myrick

LYON, Judge.

Mrs. Frances Myrick filed a libel in Crawford superior court against her husband, Marcellus A. Myrick. The libellant states in her petition, that she and her husband were married in the month of November, 1859, when she was only 17 years old, having been by her parents, up to that time, tenderly raised, cared for and educated. She prays for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii upon the grounds of cruelty by her husband to her, and of drunkenness upon the part of her husband. 1. The only question made, as to the latter ground, is that the charge of habitual drunkenness as a specific and…