Spence v. Spence

Walker, V. C.

This is essentially a fact case, and, at the close of the hearing, I took occasion to remark that I was in a state of dubiety con*787cerning the decision. I regarded, and regard the case as a very close one. Upon the hearing I also remarked that unfounded charges of adultery by the husband against the wife were the principal facts of the alleged extreme cruelty. In Black v. Black, 30 N. J. Eq. (3 Stew.) 215, Vice-Chancellor Van Fleet (at ¶. 221) used this language': “Slight violence by a husband who has evinced a hatred almost diabolical, against his wife, in attempting to blast her…