Case ID: nj-eq_65/html/0771-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles L. Duvale, complainant, v. Celine M. Duvale, defendant.
    1. If a wife by words and blows, provokéd her husband to counter verbal and physical abuse, which abuse was not disproportioned to the provocation, she cannot get a divorce on the ground of his extreme cruelty.
    2. The mental condition of the wife will not remove the case from this rule, if it is not such as to deprive her of power to desist from her provoking conduct.
    Opinion by Vice-Chancellor Eeed, reported in 34 Atl. Rep. 888.
    
   Per Curiam.

Decree affirmed for the reasons stated by the Vice-Chancellor.

Note. — The report of this ease in 10 Dick. Ch. Rep. 589 is an error, so far as respects the reference to 9 Dick. Ch. Rep. 581. The decree in 9 Dick. Ch. Rep. 581 was modified on appeal, as reported in 11 Dick. Ch. Rep. 375.