Brinson v. Brinson

Candler, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Cruel treatment as a ground for divorce is the wilful infliction of pain, bodily or mental, upon the complaining party, such as reasonably justifies an apprehension of danger to life, limb, or health. Ring v. Ring, 118 Ga. 183 (44 S. E. 861, 62 L. R. A. 878); Wood v. Wood, 179 Ga. 635 (176 S. E. 483); Holcombe v. Holcombe, 197 Ga. 105 (27 S. E. 2d, 687). “Mental anguish, wounded feelings, constantly aggravated by repeated insults and neglect, are as bad as actual bruises of the person; and that which produces the one is not more cruel than…