Bell v. Bell

This suit was brought by the appellee, based on the fifth subdivisión of § 3500 of Crawford & Moses ’ Digest. That section reads as' follows:

“Where either party shall be addicted to habitual drunkenness for the space of one year, or shall be guilty of such cruel and barbarous treatment as to endanger the life of the other, or shall offer such indignities to the person of the other as shall render his or her condition intolerable.”

The plaintiff alleged that he and the defendant were married on April 1, 1927, and that soon thereafter she began a systematic course of rudeness, studied neglect,…