Supreme Court of North Carolina February 5, 1894 (Branch v. . Ward)

A VERY, J.:

“It is better” (said Shepherd, C. J., in

Wells

v.

Batts,

112 N. C., 290—13 Am. St. Rep., 506) “that the law should require her (the wife’s) positive and unequivocal assent than to destroy the domestic tranquility by

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forcing her, at the peril of forfeiting her rights, to exercise a constant and irritating surveillance over the conduct of her husband in the management and