M'Culloch v. M'Culloch

Bill by the wife against the husband for divorce, alleging cruel treatment. The cause was submitted on bill, answer, and testimony, and the divorce granted.

The error insisted on in this decree is, that it was rendered upon insufficient proof. The record states that there was no evidence of the existence of the causes assigned for the divorce, except the confessions of the defendant coupled with the fact that the parties then were, and had been since the preceding May, separated. The cause was heard in October.

The correctness of this decree must depend upon the view taken of sect. 37, chapt.…