Edwards v. Edwards

Lane, V. C.

(at conclusion of hearing).

This is a hearing upon an order requiring respondent, Chester S. Edwards, to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt for imposition and fraud upon the court and perjury committed by him before a special master in an uncontested divorce suit brought by him against his wife which resulted in a final decree and which could not have so resulted if the petitioner had testified truly. The questions which were asked him, to which the false replies were made, were material and were in my judgment known by the petitioner to have been material at the…