Gowdy v. Gowdy

The state referee in his report found in considerable detail the facts as to the conduct of the defendant toward the plaintiff during their married life, and found as a conclusion from the subordinate facts that for more than four years prior to the date of the writ the defendant had been guilty of intolerable cruelty to the plaintiff. The defendant remonstrated against the acceptance of the report on the ground (1) that the finding that the defendant was guilty of intolerable cruelty was made without evidence and (2) that the subordinate facts set forth in the report do not support the…