Williams v. Williams

This is an appeal from the decision of the trial court denying Ellen Lucille Williams a divorce from Defendant Ernie Herschel Williams.

Plaintiff sued her husband for divorce charging habitual drunkenness and extreme physical cruelty and sought custody of their five minor children. The Defendant denied the Plaintiff’s allegations and cross-complained for divorce charging her with mental cruelty and later amended his complaint to include adultery. Defendant also sought custody of the children.

The trial court found the Defendant guilty of extreme and repeated physical cruelty, but not guilty of…