Close v. Close

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Yas Syckel, J.

This is an appeal from the decree of the Chancellor refusing to grant Ellen M. Close, the complainant, a divorce from bed and board for alleged cruelty on the part.of her husband.

It is very difficult to give any affirmative definition which will express, with entire accuracy, the meaning of extreme cruelty in our statute concerning divorce. The courts, both in England and in this country, have refrained from laying down any inflexible rule which should serve as a standard by which to adjudge all cases.

The weight of authority is, that the…