This is an appeal from an interlocutory judgment of divorce in favdr of plaintiff which divided the community property and awarded the custody of the two minor children to plaintiff.

Plaintiff has filed no brief here. He has filed an affidavit stating that he is without funds to employ an attorney, as well as to have a brief printed. He consented to the submission of the ease but challenged generally the statement of facts in defendant’s brief.

Plaintiff filed his complaint alleging cruelty that had caused him grievous mental suffering. Defendant’s cross-complaint contained like allegations in asking for a divorce and custody of the children.

Defendant urges that there was no sufficient evidence of cruelty and none of grievous mental suffering to support the judgment in favor of plaintiff and that it was a breach of discretion to award plaintiff the custody of Betty May Negley, a daughter, 16 years old, and Donald Richard Negley, a son, 11 years old.

The divorce action was tried very briefly on February 20, 1947, with the result already indicated, except that the custody of the daughter was then given to defendant. Findings of fact were waived.

On March 13, 1947, and before entry of the interlocutory decree, defendant, with another attorney, moved to reopen the case to take further evidence on the question of the custody of the children. The trial court granted the motion with the order that ‘ The matter then will be reopened upon stipulation of counsel on the issue of custody of the children only. ’ ’

The evidence on the question of the cruel treatment of plaintiff by defendant is very brief. Plaintiff testified in his own behalf on this question as follows:

Plaintiff’s mother was called as a corroborating witness. She testified as follows:

This is all of the evidence offered by plaintiff on the question of his right to a divorce. The corroboration is extremely meager, to say the least.

Defendant testified that plaintiff became infatuated with another woman and contracted a social disease; that this made her unhappy and nervous.

The daughter was called to corroborate her mother. She testified as follows:

This is all of the evidence in the record of the trial of the divorce action bearing on the question of cruelty. It is true that on the second hearing neighbors testified that plaintiff told them that he had a social disease, but under the stipulation of counsel and the court order we assume that this was admitted on the question of the fitness of plaintiff to have the custody of his children. At least the trial judge announced several times that all testimony then taken was limited to the question of custody.

As applicable here, extreme cruelty as a ground for divorce “is the wrongful infliction of . . . grievous mental suffering upon the other by one party to the marriage.” (Civ. Code, § 94.)

It is well established that where the wrong complained of by the injured spouse is grievous mental suffering with no claim of bodily injury, the grievous mental suffering is the ultimate fact which alone will entitle a party to a divorce and unless such mental suffering is established as a result of the acts of the other party, a judgment awarding a divorce cannot be sustained. (Ritter v. Ritter, 103 Cal.App. 583 [ 284 P. 950 ].) As said in Hunsberger v. Hunsberger, 99 Cal.App. 130 [ 277 P. 1092 ]:

“. . . it is patent that the trial court was exercising a sound discretion in refusing to base a decree of divorce on any one or all of the acts alleged. There is not a particle of evidence in the record to show that the defendant inflicted any bodily injury on the plaintiff nor that any one or all of her acts produced any grievous mental suffering on the part of the plaintiff. For all of these.reasons the trial court did not err in holding that the plaintiff had not proved a cause of action as for extreme cruelty. (Barnes v. Barnes, 95 Cal. 171, 176 [ 16 L.R.A. 660 , 30 P. 298 ].) ” (See, also, Truax v Truax, 62 Cal.App. 2d 441 [ 145 P. 2d 88 ]; Nason v Nason, 48 Cal.App.2d 500 [ 120 P.2d 37 ].

It is also the rule that where the acts complained of “were such as to inevitably cause grievous mental suffering,” a trial judge is justified in drawing the inference of such suffering from those acts. (Bush v. Bush, 72 Cal.App.2d 487 [ 164 P.2d 774 ]; Maloof v. Maloof, 175 Cal. 571 [ 166 P. 330 ].)

In the instant case, there being no claim of bodily injury, the conduct complained of by plaintiff was not of such a nature as to compel the inference of grievous mental suffering, so there should have been proof showing such grievous mental suffering to support the decree, and there is none in the record.

We have carefully read all of the record and conclude that there was no breach of discretion in awarding custody, of the two children to plaintiff. The daughter was over 16 years of age and was self-supporting. She could not get along with her mother. At the time of the last hearing she was living at the T. W. O. A. Several witnesses testified that it was a good place for her to live and provided proper care for and supervision over her. She desired to continue living there and her father proposed to let her do so under his guidance and direction. Donald was provided a reasonably good home with his father and wished to remain in his custody.

As the judgment of divorce must be reversed, and as the whole judgment is before us for review, we believe it should be reversed as a whole so that the best interests of the children may be considered and protected under the circumstances appearing at the second trial.

The judgment is reversed.

Barnard, P. J., and Griffin, J., concurred.