Manning v. Manning

The husband filed a complaint for divorce on the ground of cruel and abusive treatment. The judge granted a judgment of divorce nisi, from which the wife appeals. The case is before us without a report of the judge’s findings but with a report of the evidence. Where a case comes to this court without a report of the findings but with a report of the evidence, the judgment imports a finding of all facts, open on the evidence, needed to support the judgment, and such findings must stand *796unless clearly erroneous. See Mass.R.Dom.Rel.P. 52(a) (1975). There was evidence from which the judge could…