Pugh v. Pugh

HALL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court granting a divorce on grounds of adultery in favor of plaintiff wife against defendant husband. We affirm the judgment.

On appeal defendant husband contends plaintiff wife did not meet the burden of proof required by the jurisprudence to prove adultery.

The well-established and often-quoted rule on the standard of proof required in adultery cases is that adultery may be established by indirect or circumstantial evidence because, in the nature of things, adulterous acts can seldom be proven by direct or positive testimony.…