This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...and circumstances, so that the court? may judge of their sufhciency. (0) In Michigaii it has been held that one who has the habit of indulc-inv in intoxl-_ 5 D eating liquors, so firmly fixed that he becomes intoxicated.85 often as the temptation is presented by his being in the vicinity where liquors are sold, is an habitual drnnkard within the ineaning of the law. ((1) In California the court has Bald that a fixed habit of drinking to excess, to such a degree as to disqnalifyaperson from attending to his business, during the principal portion of the time usually devoted to business, 19 such habitual intemperance as is made a ground for divorce. (a) N0. 199. Bill for divorce, charging habitual drunkenness, and praying for custody of children, alimony, injunction, etc. STATE on MICHIGAN. The Circuit Court for the County of In Chancery. The Circuit Court for the County of. In Chancery. Your oratrix, A B, of, etc., respectfully represents unto this honorable court, that she is an actual resident of the said county of, and is now, and has been a resident of the State of Michigan for over one year last Jast; that on. etc, at etc., she was lawfully married to one C lb, and from that time until, etc., lived and cohabited with him as his wife, and during all that time faithfully perforuied all her duties and obligations as a wife, bearing with her husband's faults and errors, and striving to make their home and family comfortable and happy. _. Your oratrix further represents, that the said C D, wholly regardless of his obligations as a husband, a-few years after the said marriage, commenced the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, and has become and is an habitual drunkard, and is and has been guilty of habitual drunkenness; that he has...