Johnson v. Johnson
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of Sargent County, Allen, J. A wife is no longer regarded as her husband’s chattel. The husband is no longer regarded as the superior and the wife as the inferior as in the days of Blackstone. 2 Sharswood’s Bl. Com. p. 142; Rott v. Goehring, 33 N. D. 413. Extreme cruelty is the infliction by one party of a marriage of grievous bodily injury or grievous mental suffering upon the other. Comp.
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Appeal from the District Court of Sargent County, Allen, J. A wife is no longer regarded as her husband’s chattel. The husband is no longer regarded as the superior and the wife as the inferior as in the days of Blackstone. 2 Sharswood’s Bl. Com. p. 142; Rott v. Goehring, 33 N. D. 413. Extreme cruelty is the infliction by one party of a marriage of grievous bodily injury or grievous mental suffering upon the other. Comp. Laws 1913, § 4382. Mental suffering is ground for a divorce in the absence of any bodily injury. Mahnken v. Mahnken, 9 N. D. 118. Any unjustifiable conduct upon the part of…
1Opinion of the CourtBirdzell, J.
This is an action for divorce. The plaintiff, Agnes Johnson, was married to the defendant on June 22, 1918. She was a little past sixteen years .of age and the defendant was twenty-five. He entered the military service during the month following his marriage, and remained in the service for some five months or until the middle of December. On November 28,- 1918, approximately five months after the marriage, a child was born. During confinement the plaintiff was cared for by her mother, who lived in a small, one-story, two-room house in Havana, in this state, the defendant at the time being in…
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