What is the test for cruelty in the context of "imposing an efficiency method" on a husband?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jones v. Jones, 1925 CanLII 98 (SK QB):
1918: Forget v. Forget, 40 D.L.R. 662, Metcalfe, J.: Imperiousness and meanness and insisting on running his household on an efficiency method, although maddening to the wife, was not held to be cruelty, where there was no evidence of bodily hurt or injury to the health of the wife, nor any reasonable apprehension thereof.
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