Benjeski v. Benjeski

Kenworthey, J.,

Opinion by

In this divorce ‘action brought by the husband on the grounds of indignities and cruel and barbarous treatment, the court below dismissed the libel on the ground that respondent’s conduct, though amounting to * indignities, resulted from dementia praecox from which she was suffering throughout the major part of her married life. The correctness of this ruling presents the single issue in the case.

Libellant’s testimony concerning respondent’s conduct was scarcely contradicted except in minor details. It will not be necessary to describe it, except to say that it…