Edelman v. Edelman

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

In this action for divorce on the grounds of cruel and barbarous treatment, and indignities to the person, the master who heard the case recommended dismissal of the libel. Exceptions to his report were dismissed by the court below and the libellant wife took this appeal.

Cruel and barbarous treatment consists of actual personal violence or a reasonable apprehension thereof, or such a course of treatment as endangers life or health and renders cohabitation unsafe: Campbell v. Campbell, 129 Pa. Superior Ct. 106, 194 A. 760. A single act of cruelty may be so severe and with…