McDevitt v. McDevitt

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

This is another divorce case which was heard by us in forma pauperis because of the alleged poverty of the parties. Yet the libellant found means to pay for 24 hearings before a master, extending nearly 18 months, from May 5, 1938 to October 14, 1940, in the course of which 890 typewritten pages of testimony were taken— and, we assume, paid for — averaging 37 pages a hearing —from which we infer that the hearings usually consumed only about an hour each. The hearings were unnecessarily strung out by unseemly bickerings and useless repetitious examinations. In our…