Court Opinion

ID: 3551998
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:04:21.474214+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:34.919576
License: Public Domain

I do not see what there is in this case for the opinion of the court. If we are to say whether a divorce for the cause of cruelty could legally be decreed upon evidence of two not very aggravated assaults, and the use of violent, profane, and indecent language by the husband to the wife, and such a course of conduct as to terrify her and their children, and render the idea of living with him intolerable, then I agree with my brethren that such evidence tends to show cruelty, and the finding of the judge that there was such cruelty as the statute makes a cause of divorce is not to be set aside for the reason that there was no evidence upon which it could be based.
Before receiving the testimony of the boy, the judge must have been satisfied that he was sufficiently instructed in the nature of an oath to justify such a course. It was an exercise of discretion which this court is not to revise. 1 Gr. Ev., sec. 367.
Exceptions overruled.