Heaton v. Heaton

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the complainant’s bill for a divorce. The proofs in support of the charge of extreme cruelty, which is the cause assigned in the bill, rest solely upon the testimony of the complainant herself, and the chancellor refused to grant the relief because in his opinion the case had not been clearly established in accordance with the rule announced by this court in Murphy v. Murphy, 150 Mich. 97 (113 N. W. 583).

Recognizing the rule that this court ought not to lightly reverse a decree made under such conditions where the chancellor, who has seen and heard…