Saunders v. Saunders

In this action for a separation as well as for an alleged conversion, the plaintiff at the inception of the trial before this court moved to amend the wherefore clause of the third cause of action for separation predicated upon cruel and inhuman treatment so as to be one for divorce pursuant to section 170 of the Domestic Relations Law.

*1082This motion is the first of its kind in this court under the revised Domestic Relations Law which became effective September 1, 1967. The plaintiff in her motion seeks such relief on condition, however, that she be not compelled to proceed to conciliation as…