Neff v. Neff
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for a divorce upon the ground of intolerable cruelty, brought to and tried by the .Superior Court in New Haven County, Kellogg, J., after the defendant had filed a cross-complaint praying for a divorce upon the ground of the plaintiff’s adultery; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant upon the complaint and for the plaintiff upon the cross-complaint, from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
The defendant appeals from the decree of the court dismissing his action upon the cross-complaint charging adultery. He assigns as error the three conclusions to which the court came upon the facts. We cannot hold, as matter of law, that the trial court was in error in the third conclusion it drew, that the facts did not warrant it in finding “as a necessary conclusion that the plaintiff had been guilty of adultery.” An erroneous conclusion, drawn from subordinate facts, is an error of law, and reviewable by us. Hayden v. Allen, 55 Conn. 280, 289, 11 Atl. 31. Our examination of the facts…
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