Clark v. Clark

Appellant commenced this action against respondent to procure a decree dissolving their bonds of matrimony and awarding to him certain property described in the complaint. The trial resulted in a decree that the marriage be not dissolved, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

The cause of action stated in the complaint, and which evidence introduced on behalf of appellant tended to establish, is extreme cruelty, which I. C. A., see. 31-605, defines as follows:

"Extreme cruelty is the infliction of grievous bodily injury or grievous mental suffering upon the other by one party to the marriage. ’…