Tibbetts v. Tibbetts

Libel for divorce alleging extreme cruelty. RSA 458:7 III. After a hearing before Morris, J., a divorce was decreed for that cause. Libelee’s exceptions to the denial of his motions for dismissal made at the end of libelant’s evidence and renewed at the close of all the evidence were reserved and transferred. Libelee argues that the libelant failed to sustain her burden of proving extreme cruelty and further maintains that his wife’s action should have been dismissed also on the grounds of recrimination and condonation.

The parties were married on January 1, 1948, and the wife left their home…