Baron v. Baron

The chief question presented is the propriety of a direction by the trial justice that the jury answer in the negative a framed issue on defendant’s counterclaim for divorce as to whether the plaintiff had committed adultery in the Hotel Taft on November 22, 1934.

On the afternoon of the day in question at about four-thirty p. m., the defendant, accompanied by his two brothers and several private detectives, went to the hotel and gained admission to the room where the plaintiff and the alleged corespondent were admittedly present. Defendant’s two brothers testified that the plaintiff was…