Vignos v. Vignos

The principles involved in this case are precisely like those decided in the case of Birkby v. Birkby, ante, 120, and must be decided in the same way. The complaint in the bill is cruelty on the part of the husband towards the wife; but the record does not show that degree of extreme and repeated cruelty which the statute requires, to authorize a decree for a divorce for that cause. That the husband was unkind in his treatment, and tyrannical in his disposition, is most likely true, but there is no personal violence shown, unless it may possibly be inferred upon one occasion, when in bed…