Ritayik Ex Rel. Piskulic v. Ritayik
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. —lion. Benj. J. Klene,.Judge. (1) The respondent says the court committed no error in dismissing the petition of plaintiff. While the evidence was conflicting, and irreconcilable, between plaintiff and defendant it was as a whole, overwhelmingly in favor of respondent and against the canse of divorce plead in plaintiff’s petition. (2) The judgment of the court ought not to he disturbed, in this cause.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. —lion. Benj. J. Klene,.Judge. (1) The respondent says the court committed no error in dismissing the petition of plaintiff. While the evidence was conflicting, and irreconcilable, between plaintiff and defendant it was as a whole, overwhelmingly in favor of respondent and against the canse of divorce plead in plaintiff’s petition. (2) The judgment of the court ought not to he disturbed, in this cause. When in a divorce case the evidence is conflicting, the trial court’s opportunity for judging the credit to be given to the witnesses…
1Opinion of the CourtReynolds, P. J.
Action for divorce by plaintiff against his wife. Plaintiff, a minor, suing by his next friend, averring that he was married to defendant on October 31, 1918, in the city of St. Louis, avers that at the time of the solemnization of the marriage defendant was pregnant by a man other than plaintiff without his knowledge at or before the time of the solemnization of the marriage; that plaintiff first learned of the condition of the defendant on the day of his marriage and thereupon left her and had not lived with her since.
The answer is a general denial.
There was a decree, on trial before the…
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