CLOUGH v. CLOUGH

No. 49226.

84 N.W.2d 16 (1957)

Valera M. CLOUGH, Appellant, v. G. Herbert CLOUGH, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clough & Clough, Mason City, for appellant.

Boyle & Schuler, Clear Lake, for appellee.


THOMPSON, Justice.

The plaintiff's case is bottomed upon that part of our divorce laws found in section 598.8, subsection 5, of the Code of 1954, I.C.A. We quote the applicable section and subsection herewith:

"598.8 Causes

"Divorces from the bonds of matrimony may be decreed against the husband for the following causes: * * *

"5. When he is guilty of such inhuman treatment as to endanger the life of his wife."

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