Crittenden v. Crittenden

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

The appeal is by the husband from a decree granting to the wife a divorce on the ground of adultery, and awarding her $20 per month as alimony.

The testimony was taken ore tenus before the trial judge. Where the testimony is taken thus, the trial judge has the witnesses before him, hears their testimony, and observes their demeanor on the witness stand, and unless his judgment is palpably wrong it will not be here disturbed. Bonds v. Bonds, 234 Ala. 522, 175 So. 561; Puckett v. Puckett, 240 Ala. 607, 200 So. 420; Marks v. Marks, 254 Ala. 612, 49 So.2d 166, and cases…