Armstrong v. Armstrong

The appeal is from a decree granting a divorce from appellant on the ground of becoming addicted after marriage to habitual drunkenness. Section 7407, Code of 1923, subd. 6.

The evidence was not taken orally before the court, but appears to have been taken before the register, and none of the witnesses seen and heard by the trial court. The review here, therefore, of the conclusion of the chancellor on the facts, is, in effect, under our statute, practically de novo. Section 10276, Code 1923; Wade v. Miller, 208 Ala. 264, 93 So. 905.

The bill also contained, as ground for divorce, a charge of…