Pursley

The plaintiff, in her bill, relies upon the charge of extreme cruelty, and urges this as a chief cause for divorce. This Court has, heretofore, in several cases, held that a husband calling his wife a harlot in the presence of others, was an act of extréme cruelly, when there was no proof of the charge, and her general character and ■ good conduct did not allow such a presumption. Much I think depends on the intellectual, moral and social condition of the parties. With persons who have received no mpral or religious training, who Mve not kept pace with the present.state of civilization, as it existsin. our country at this day, and whose passions, are uncontrolled, grossly indecent language often passes as mere badinage But it is said that the “ decencies of life belong equally tó all classed;” tins I grant, and in none aré they more carefully observed and cultivated than with a large majority of.the American people. , Yet it,is ¿ét trae that all classes practice the decencies of life, for if such were the case there would be fewer applications for divorce. . Chancellor Walworth defines legal cruelty to consist .in that kind of conduct wMch endangers-the life or health of the…