Hunnewell v. Hunnewell

This appeal by the husband from a judgment nisi of divorce granted on the wife’s complaint (the husband’s complaint for divorce being dismissed) raises only the question whether the probate judge erred in ordering the final hearing of April 20, 1982, to go forward in the absence from the courtroom of the husband or his representative.

The hearing was the culmination of sixteen years of litigation starting with the wife’s petition for separate support and developing into the cross-complaints. As the appeal may implicate a consideration of the quality of the husband’s participation through the…