Levey v. Levey

To grant or to withhold leave to discontinue a matrimonial action is within the court’s discretion, which ordinarEy is not reviewed on appeal. EspeciaEy are we disinclined to such review in a case Eke this, where the ■proofs at successive hearings have been fully taken; both parties having testified in the presence of the trial judge, and the hearings before him having been unreservedly closed. Leave to discontinue in such circumstances depends on plaintiff’s showing good faith, honesty and sincerity. This plaintiff, however, demands annulment of her marriage for defendant’s incapacity, which…