Grant v. Grant

This is a petition for divorce for neglect to provide and extreme cruelty. At the hearing in the Superior Court petitioner did not press the charge of neglect to provide. The petition was granted on the ground of extreme cruelty. To this decision exception was duly taken by respondent and the cause is here on his bill of exceptions.

Some other exceptions were taken to certain rulings of the trial justice but they are unimportant and require no special mention.(1) The question is, Was the decision of the trial justice clearly erroneous? Sayles v. Sayles, 41 R. I. 170. The petitioner is a woman…