BELL v. BELL

19636.

213 Ga. 176 (1957)

97 S.E.2d 571

BELL v. BELL.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 9, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. E. Fendler, for plaintiff in error.

Thomas R. Luck, Jr., Edward T. Brock, contra.


HAWKINS, Justice.

1. In a divorce case based upon the ground of cruel treatment, the trial judge charged the jury that "it is necessary for you to know what our law defines cruel treatment to be. And, the law says that cruelty in the sense that we use it in obtaining a divorce or as grounds for divorce, is the wilful infliction of cruel acts by one party on another that would cause the apprehensions of danger to life, limb, health, or mind." While this charge is not...

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