Blaney v. Blaney
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Libel for divorce from the bond of matrimony, filed October 20,1877, alleging that the libellee had contracted gross and confirmed habits of intoxication.
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Libel for divorce from the bond of matrimony, filed October 20,1877, alleging that the libellee had contracted gross and confirmed habits of intoxication. At the hearing, before Colt, J., it appeared that the libellee was a person who, for a period of twelve or fifteen years last past, not exceeding three or four times a year, became grossly intoxicated, and on each of these occasions remained in that condition from seven to ten days; and that on such occasions he went or was sent to the Washingtonian Home in Boston. Albert Day, the superintendent and physician at that institution, testified…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
The statute which makes gross and confirmed habits of intoxication a ground of divorce does not undertake to define those terms, and they probably do not admit of precise definition. It does not point out how long continued or how frequent the intoxication must be to be pronounced habitual, or to what extreme it must be carried to be properly described as gross. St. 1870, c. 404. The evidence reported in this bill of exceptions is to the effect that the libellee, for a period of twelve or fifteen years, had as often as three or four times a year yielded to an impulse to drink to excess; that…
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