Pewitt v. Pewitt

ÜN PETITION TO REHEAR

A petition to rehear has been filed by Martha Pewitt. Its first insistence is that there was no proof of a subsisting marriage between her and Maclin. She invokes Code Section 8437 wherein the Court in a divorce suit is required to hear proof notwithstanding a pro confesso or admission that the facts alleged are true.

Square Pewitt testified that about two years before he filed his divorce proceedings Martha commenced to assert that she and Maclin were not divorced, and he finally became convinced of the truth of the assertion. At an appropriate time during the course of…