Ritter v. Ritter

This is a divorce and custody case. Plaintiff wife’s petition was based on indignities in physical and verbal abuse, use of intoxicants to excess, and harassment of plaintiff and the children. It prayed for custody of the two children (a boy age nine and a girl age three at time of trial). Defendant husband answered by denial, and with a cross-petition alleging that plaintiff would leave the house at all hours day and night and leave the children; and that plaintiff had been associating with other (unnamed) men on different occasions without his consent. Decree was for divorce, custody,…