Carlton v. Carlton

— A divorce was granted to the husband upon the statutory grounds of habitual indulgence in violent and ungovernable temper and extreme cruelty, and the chancellor denied the wife’s application for alimony, and she appealed. There is sufficient testimony to support the decree of divorce; but we think the circumstances of this case require some provision to be made for the wife, out of the husband’s property.

The appellant is the mother of the appellee's six children ; she generously contributed in funds and by her personal exertion and industry through a long period of time to the acquisition…