Gabriel v. Gabriel

Steen, J.,

The record in this case is unreasonably voluminous, There are 2610 pages of testimony. Considering that Carlyle’s History of the French Revolution is less bulky, one would think that the matrimonial troubles of the Gabriels could have been told in more condensed language, and that the delinquencies even of a Messalina or a Lucretia Borgia could be depicted in less volume than counsel have seen fit to employ in the present case.

The libellant and respondent were married on April 22, 1899. The libellant was then twenty-four years old; his wife, the respondent, was twenty-eight years of…