Orsuto v. Orsuto
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Hirt, J.,
The lower court, in effect, adopted the findings and the recommendation of the Master and entered a decree of divorce on the ground of indignities. Without doing violence to the rule that the report of a Master, who has seen and heard the witnesses, is entitled to the fullest consideration, we are obliged to reverse the decree. The controlling issues are not dependent upon estimates of the credibility of witnesses but rather on the conclusions to be drawn from facts established by indisputable evidence.
Following their marriage in March 1929 the parties made their home with…
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