Figlar v. Figlar

These appeals arose from cross-actions in which each party first sought a divorce on the grounds of intolerable cruelty and subsequently amended the complaint to seek dissolution of the marriage on the ground that it had broken down irretrievably. A trial referee, sitting as a court, heard the cases simultaneously and concluded that the marriage had broken down irretrievably and that the husband (to whom we will refer as the defendant) was guilty of acts of intolerable cruelty which were the principal cause of the breakdown of the marriage. The court's decree awarded to the wife (to whom we…