Livengood v. Livengood

This is an appeal from a decree granting plaintiff husband a divorce a. v. m. on the ground of indignities. At the hearing before a master, the husband presented extensive evidence indicating that his wife for several years had directed against him a vindictive campaign of personal vilification, physical threats, petty annoyances, and general mockery and degradation. The wife presented testimony of the psychiatrist who had cared for her since 1974. He testified that the wife suffered from a manic-depressive psychosis, and believed that the wife’s emotional illness tended to account for much…