Coe v. Coe

This suit is for a divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty, under the 1923 supplement to the Divorce act. P.L. 1923 p. 494. The couple lived together nearly twenty years, and up until August, 1922, the acts of violence complained of were infrequent. From that time on until the following June, when they separated, there was great discord, and the husband's ill-temper spent itself in at least four or five vicious assaults upon his wife, by seizing her by the throat to choke her, throwing her down or causing her to fall, and by mauling and beating her. To this the wife testified in great…