Howatt v. Howatt
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Thomas Howatt and the corespondent, Martha A. Baeder, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 17th day of February, 1913, upon an interlocutory judgment rendered upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Ulster Special Term. The judgment appealed from granted plaintiff a divorce.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J.:
A short chronological statement of the proceedings in this case will serve to clarify the questions which have arisen. The action is brought for divorce on statutory grounds. Issue was joined by the answer of defendant upon the 30th day of January, 1912. Thereafter an order was granted requiring the defendant to pay plaintiff ten dollars a week alimony from *30the 1st day of April, 1912. Upon the sixth day of May, defendant failing to appear, after notice of trial duly served, an inquest was taken by the plaintiff. Proof was made of the fact of adultery and findings of fact and of…
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- Dicks v. DicksAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
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