Williams v. Williams

Our question in this case is whether or mot the testimony adduced on the hearing justified' a decree of divorce to the plaintiff on the. ground of his wife’s extreme and repeated cruelties. The trial chancellor held that it did. The wife has appealed to this Court. She denies the cruelties.

The husband relies, for divorce, upon his wife’s asserted argumentative disposition and violent temper, her coolness and indifference towards him, and the fact that she took trips without him. These defaults, we are told, affected his appetite, caused him mental anguish and reacted adversely upon his work.

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