Gowin v. Gowin

Jesse C. Gowin has appealed from a judgment recovered against him by his wife, Emma Lee Gowin, for damages alleged to have been sustained by the wife by reason of the breach of the marriage contract by the husband. According to allegations in' plaintiff’s petition, she was married to the defendant November 8, 1920. Soon after the marriage, the defendant began a course of outrageously cruel treatment of her, and on many occasions thereafter violently assaulted, kicked, and scratched and-threatened her with bodily injury, all in anger and without any provocation on her part. Such treatment on…