Reville v. Reville

DUFRESNE, Chief Justice.

William A. Reville was granted a divorce from Eleanor M. Reville on October 23, 1970 in the District Court, Seventh District, Division of Northern Kennebec, on the ground of the wife’s “gross and confirmed habits of intoxication from the use of intoxicating liquors” pursuant to 19 M.R.S.A. § 691. In her appeal to the Law Court from the Superior Court’s affirmance of the District Court judgment of divorce, the defendant wife advanced for the first time her contention that the reference statute as applied to her violated her rights under the due process clause of the…