Crowley v. Crowley

This is an undefended divorce action brought by a husband against his wife on the ground that she committed adultery with a certain named doctor.

The proof relied upon is almost exclusively the admission or confession of the alleged guilty parties. They are not the typical admissions where the incriminating statements are made in open court, but on the contrary, here we have admissions made out of court, where the corespondent, when asked to repeat them in court, sought sanctuary in section 6 of article I of the New York State Constitution forbidding compulsory self incrimination.

Superficially…