Szulc v. Szulc

While the testimony of the parties and their witnesses are in conflict, there is abundant evidence upon which the Court could find that libelee’s drinking habits were the major cause of the eventual separation of the parties. Prior to the present proceeding the libelant had instituted a libel for divorce on the ground of habitual drunkenness but a reconciliation was effected when the libelee promised to stop drinking and the libel was dismissed. Thereafter the libelee, pursuant to his doctor’s advice, “cut down for a while” but this advice, as well as that from a voluntary temperance…