What is the case law on the grounds of cruelty and adultery?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jones v. Jones, 1925 CanLII 98 (SK QB):
1823: Hulme v. Hulme, 2 Add. 27 (162 E.R. 206): Wife’s cause for divorce on the ground of cruelty coupled with adultery. There was no charge of personal violence. There were, however, threats “to cut his wife’s arm off and beat her brains out with it,” “to pull her out of bed and kick her up and down the room,” and once he threatened to run her through with a poker which he seized and brandished. This charge was held to be a sufficient charge of legal cruelty, and when established the divorce was pronounced. The husband was bound over to keep the peace, and it would appear that the wife’s future safety was menaced as well.
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