Shorediche v. Shorediche

Citations

• 115 Ill. 102
• 3 N.E. 736

Syllabus

<p>1. Divorce—sufficiency of proof of extreme and repeated cruelty. On a bill for divorce by a wife against her husband, the evidence showed that some eight years before, the defendant, while lying on a lounge, kicked the wife on the breast, upon her refusal to lot him have money, and her admission that he did not mean to do the injury was proved. The proof further showed that shortly before the filing of the bill, the defendant, while engaged in a struggle with his son, in which she interfered, struck her a blow on the cheek, her testimony leaving it doubtful whether or not the blow was accidental. She also testified, on cross-examination, as to having been shaken by him, leaving black marks on her wrists. The court below' dismissed the bill: Held, that under the evidence the decree could not be said to be so clearly wrong as to call for a reversal.</p> <p>2. Evidence of abusive and obscene language of the husband to his wife, in the presence of the family and others, can not be taken to supply the lack of proof of the material charge in the bill as to extreme and repeated cruelty and habitual drunkenness.</p>