Heiser v. Heiser

This is an action for divorce, brought by the husband against the wife. The charge in the complaint of the husband was cruel treatment and personal indignities rendering life burdensome. The prayer was for an absolute divorce. The wife, answering the complaint, denied the allegations of cruelty and, by an affirmative answer and cross-complaint, charged the husband with habitual drunkenness, extending over a period of some four years; alleging that the husband had squandered most of his earnings during that period in drink and riotous living, and that he had made it impossible for her to live…