Clark v. Clark

BUDGE, J.,

Dissenting. — I. C. A., section 31-605, defines extreme cruelty as follows:

‘ ‘ Extreme cruelty is the infliction of grievous bodily injury or grievous mental suffering upon the other by one party to the marriage.”

The court found in its finding number four:

“That defendant (respondent) disliked plaintiff’s adult children and that her conduct in this regard tended to promote a lack of harmony in the household and was undoubtedly carried to unjustifiable extremes; that defendant’s use of epithets towards either plaintiff or his adult children in this respect is not sufficient of itself…