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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Schoen v. Schoen, 175 Wis. 20. the document. Witt of Grant, 149 Wis. 330, 337, 135 N. W. 833; Matter of Spooner, 13 Mills' Reports (N. Y. Sur.) 482. These points are dwelt upon merely as indicating the vast variety of legislative and judicial views on the subject of.statutory formalities, their flexibility and the constant changes made; that no property rights are considered as invaded or the established order of things overthrown by such changes. I think the judgment should be reversed and it be held that Mrs. Halm, as designated beneficiary in the admitted will of Theodore W. Johnson, is entitled to take just as the testator therein declared she should take. Doerfler, J., took no part. A motion for a rehearing was denied, with $25 costs, on September 23, 1921. Schoen, Appellant, vs. Schoen, Respondent. April 9?September 23, 1921. Divorce: Grounds: Cruel and inhuman treatment: How accomplished: Wife employing means other than personal violence: Loss of temper by husband: Effect on husband's action: Evidence: Sufficiency: Division of property: Amount awarded wife. 1. In an action by the wife for a divorce, the evidence is held to show that she had been guilty of a course of cruel and inhuman treatment of the husband practiced by means other than personal violence, through manifesting hatred toward him, through interference in his business, through placing her financial differences with her husband in the hands of an attorney, by employing various methods of coercion, if not blackmail, in attempting to secure a financial settlement, and by persistently worrying and harassing the husband. 2. The evidence is also held insufficient to show that the husband had been guilty of such cruel and inhuman treatment as to entitle the wife to a divorce or such...