Ward v. Ward

The defendant, Estella Ward, has appealed from a judgment and decree of divorce entered in the district court of Silver Bow county in favor of plaintiff, Erie T. Ward, by the terms of which plaintiff is awarded the custody of a female adopted child of the age of six years.

The plaintiff commenced action for divorce in July, 1926, and in his complaint stated three causes of action: (1) Extreme cruelty, (2) habitual drunkenness, and (3) wilful desertion; the period of wrongdoing in the first and second being from the fall of 1921 to July 1, 1923, a period of over one year, while the ground of…