DuBose v. DuBose

Jackson. Chief Justice.

This record develops a libel for a divorce brought by the wife against the husband for cruel treatment of her in respect to the improper, vulgar and excessive use of his marital rights and conjugal intercourse with her The jury found for the respondent, and on being denied a new trial by the court, the libellant excepted, and the case is before us for review.

1. Whilst ordinarily a party cannot put his general character 'in issue unless it be assailed, yet where the very nature of the cause and the allegations in the libel make the attack upon his character, he may take…