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Defendant has appealed from a decree of the superior court awarding to the plaintiff a divorce and the gross sum of $7,800 for future support.

The parties were married in August, 1919, and separated one year and eight months thereafter. At the time of the marriage defendant was sixty-five years of age and the plaintiff about thirty-one. Both parties had been previously married and plaintiff had two young children whom she brought with her to the home provided by the defendant. In her complaint she charged various acts of cruelty, consisting in' part of words and epithets used toward her by defendant in a continuous course, culminating in a physical attack upon her, which occurred in May of 1921, after which she ceased to live with her husband. There was ample evidence to sustain the charge that the defendant did violently assault the plaintiff on the date last mentioned, and that his attack was without justification, and that she suffered severe bruises and injuries as a result thereof, the effects of which, especially that from an injury to one of her ears, continued down to the time of the trial.

No serious contention is made that the findings of the court on the divorce issue…