Stockton v. Stockton

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This suit for divorce, on the ground of habitual cruel and inhuman treatment, was brought in the Chancery Court of Forrest County by Mrs. Hoyt Fenn Bass Stockton, complainant-appellee, against the defendant-appellant, William Balderston Stockton. After hearing the testimony, the chancellor found that both parties in their short married life had shown a childish attitude and a complete lack of maturity; that some sex deviations by the defendant existed, and the facts reflected habitual cruel and inhuman treatment of complainant, to the extent that her health was…