McKeon v. McKeon

This petition for divorce alleges neglect to provide, gross misbehavior and extreme cruelty. In the Superior Court the trial justice found that the evidence was insufficient to support the charges of neglect to provide and gross misbehavior but the prayer of the petitioner was granted on the ground of extreme cruelty. The cause is here on respondent’s exception to the decision.

There is no evidence of physical violence or threats of the same. The evidence relied upon in support of the charge of extreme cruelty does not prove a course of conduct deliberately intended to humiliate the petitioner…