Symons v. Symons
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Supreme Court oí the District of Columbia. Action by William L. Symons against Helen Dent Symons and another. Decree for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1DissentSmyth, Chief Justice
The court, without any review of the evidence, sets aside the decree of the trial court, which heard the plaintiff, defendant, and many other witnesses, testify, and had, therefore, an opportunity, which we have not, to study them as they gave their testimony, and brands the appellee Symons, the mother of two female children, aged respectively 15 and 13, as an adulteress. Regard for the feelings of the woman will not support this course, for the finding of the court that she is an adulteress must be more mortifying than anything that could be properly said in such á review. Both the defendant…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- McKitrick v. McKitrickCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1919
- Topham v. TophamCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1921