Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 002381/1970 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 15 December 1970.
1. The parties to this action, to whom I will for convenience refer simply as "the husband" and "the wife", went through a form of marriage in January this year. It proved to be an unwise match. The combination of a fiery-tempered wife, quick to take any offer of offence, and a husband amazingly immature for a man who has spent several years at sea, soon led to trouble. Quarrels appear to have been frequent, in the course of which the husband indulged in certain childish abuse of the wife and he