Murphy v. Murphy
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Ingham; Wiest, J. Bill by Elva M. Murphy against Joseph J. Murphy for a divorce. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This is an appeal from a decree granting a divorce to complainant on the ground of defendant’s extreme cruelty. The bill charges a series of specific acts of cruelty by words and conduct, which it is claimed as a whole render the complainant’s life in defendant’s home unbearable.
*98The testimony is very voluminous and it is true that in the main the acts of cruelty shown. are proven by the direct testimony of the complainant, corroborated only in collateral details by the testimony of other witnesses, and it is urged that the complainant’s case therefore rests upon her testimony alone and that…
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