Marks v. Marks

This is a divorce case, and the only question presented by the assignments of error is whether the findings of fact that defendant was guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment towards-the plaintiff were supported by the evidence. To determine this question, we are to apply to the evidence the rule of law enunciated, when the case was here before (56 Minn. 261, 57 N. W. 651); namely, that a systematic course of ill treatment, consisting of continual scolding and fault-finding, using unkind language, studied contempt,, and many other petty acts of a malicious nature, may, when sufficiently long…