Ruckman v. Ruckman

The law applicable to this class of cases is reasonably well settled. To entitle a wife to a divorce a mensa et thoro under the first and second subdivisions of the statute (2 R. S., 147, sec. 51), there must either be actual violence or a reasonable apprehension of bodily injury. Wounded susceptibilities do not suffice for so grave and momentous a judgment as we are called upon to pronounce. Occasional outbursts of passion will not do; nor mere abuse, however gross. Words of menace, however, are sufficient if they be of such a character and accompanied by such circumstances as to justify a…