Piatt v. Piatt

The trial court then held that no evidence of other acts of extreme cruelty, other than those specifically plead, was competent.

Subsequently, evidence was attempted to be elucidated by the testimony of several witnesses concerning other wrongful acts . of the husband, in the nature of .extreme cruelty, to which, objections were made, sustained and exceptions noted. Thus developed one of the alleged errors in the trial, that is,'the refusal of the court to permit, testimony of any other misconduct on the part of the defendant other than that alleged in the petition; a-nd, as before suggested,…