English

Respondent instituted her action for divorce alleging cruelty and failure to provide. Appellant filed his answer denying the allegations of cruelty and failure to provide and filed a cross-complaint seeking divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. The trial court found against the issues of cruelty and that appellant had failed to provide respondent with the common necessities of life, granted her an interlocutory decree of divorce and divided the community property. This decree is before us for review.

Appellant presents but a single ground upon which he urges a reversal of the judgment, namely, that there was ample uncontradicted evidence to establish extreme cruelty on the part of the respondent against appellant, and no evidence of wilful neglect and failure to provide on the part of appellant. His brief is entirely inadequate to present the question of the insufficiency of the evidence to support the findings. It has no supplement containing any evidence offered in the court below on the questions presented here. The body of the brief contains detached and isolated excerpts from the evidence which are not in sufficient narrative form to give a connected idea of the…