Pflug v. Pflug

The proceeding conformed to statutory authority. P. L., c. 287, s. 29. No errors of law appear in the master’s rulings. With reference to the exceptions to the admission and exclusion of evidence, the rule in divorce trials that “the court has never been governed by strict rules of evidence or practice, and has always exercised a broad discretion, as well as in the admission of evidence as in other respects” (Warner v. Warner, 69 N. H. 137, 138; Carpenter v. Carpenter, 78 N. H. 440, 455) is properly extended to proceedings in petitions for separate maintenance. The master overstepped no…