Williams v. Williams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment granting to the plaintiff a divorce from the defendant..

1. The principal question argued is that the evidence did not justify the court in granting a divorce to the plaintiff. One of the grounds alleged for divorce was extreme cruelty. The evidence tended to show that the defendant cursed the plaintiff and called her vile and obscene names in the presence of her two children, a boy and a girl, almost grown at the time of the trial, the children of a former husband. The language used was coarse, brutal,…