Stoneburg v. Stoneburg

This was a suit for divorce brought by the husband against the wife upon the grounds of habitual indulgence in violent and ungovernable temper and extreme cruelty. The evidence was conflicting, but there was ample evidence to sustain the Chancellor’s decree in favor of the plaintiff husband, and we would not be authorized, under the well known rule applicable in such cases, to reverse the findings of the Chancellor on the evidence.

The mere fact that the wife continued to live in the husband’s "house during the pendency of the divorce proceedings, but without cohabitation, the husband…