Sharpe v. Sharpe

On March 5, 1971, plaintiff filed suit for divorce based upon grounds of extreme and repeated mental cruelty. The trial court in a bench trial entered .a judgment denying the divorce. The plaintiff has appealed to this court on the ground that the trial court’s denying of the divorce was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

The parties were married on January 1, 1963. Due to the defendant’s work he commenced living in Springfield, Illinois, on July 1, 1970. He came home on weekends and his wife would go to Springfield on occasion. The plaintiff charged two specific acts of physical…