duPont v. duPont

Wolcott,

Justice, dissenting.

I do not agree with the majority of the court in this appeal. The majority has concluded that the Chancellor reduced the amount of the maintenance award solely by reason of the so-called “perjury” of the wife, and a sense of righteous indignation at her past immoralities. I agree that a reduction because of the “perjury” was error, but I think the other factors taken into account by the Chancellor were matters consistently taken into account by courts in such applications. His citation of 42 C.J.S., Husband and Wife, § 624, amply demonstrates the working of his…