Dicus v. Dicus

The appellant sued for a divorce from her husband, the appellee, on the grounds of cruelty and adultery, and this appeal is from a decree dismissing' the bill of complaint.

The only evidence in support of the charge of cruelty was the appellant’s own testimony, and that was contradicted by the appellee. There was no corroboration in any form of the wife’s statements as to< the mistreatment of which she complained. In a suit for divorce a decree can not be entered upon the testimony of the plaintiff alone, but corroborative proof is requisite. Code, Art. 35, sec. 4; Tomkey v. Tomkey, 130 Md.…