Crowley v. Crowley

JAMES D. CLEMENS, Special Judge.

Action for divorce. The trial court granted the defendant husband a divorce on his cross-bill and awarded him custody of the parties’ minor children. Plaintiff wife appeals. The questions put to us here concern the trial court’s alteration of its judgment, the admissibility of evidence, and whether the judgment was for the right party.

The parties were married in 1946 and separated in 1958, when plaintiff left the parties’ home and took with her their four children, a boy now 17, and girls now 13, 10 and 6.

Plaintiff’s evidence as to the merits was brief: She…