to choke his wife. He testified there was an argument about plaintiff being out so late and claimed she "undertook to throw me out of the room. She just had another tantrum, and again I just held my arm out straight to keep her away from me." In support of the allegation that defendant inflicted severe bruises on her on a number of occasions in the spring of 1953 the plaintiff cites two incidents. On one occasion she was helping their son Lynn with his studies and defendant objected. She testified: "Jarvis came in between us and knocked me so hard I fell to the floor, hit my head against the dishwasher, . . ." On another occasion during a discussion about going out to dinner when shereached for defendant's wallet she testified: ". . . he shoved me with all his might against the kitchen table. I mean my back was to the table and his to the freezer, and he shoved me as hard as he could against the table. And I bounced; he said later I bounced into him, but it wasn't that. He brought up his forearm and hit me across the nose so badly that it was sore for weeks. I mean I could hardly breathe through it." Plaintiff testified that on another occasion "he hit me so hard that I even feared I had a head injury. I mean it hurt so bad, I was getting chills and everything. I went over to my friend's house, and she put