Title: Hines v. Hines

State: new-mexico

Issuer: New Mexico Supreme Court

Document:

328 P.2d 944 (1958) 64 N.M. 377 Willie HINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dollie T. HINES, Defendant-Appellant. No. 6423. Supreme Court of New Mexico. August 11, 1958. *945 J. Benson Newell, Las Cruces, for appellant. L.J. Maveety, Las Cruces, for appellee. LUJAN, Chief Justice. Defendant-appellant, Dollie T. Hines, appeals from a final decree and judgment granting a divorce to plaintiff-appellee, Willie Hines, on the ground of incompatibility. No children were born of the marriage and there is no community property. The parties were married on August 12, 1943, at Shreveport, Louisiana, two or three weeks after appellee had been drafted into the Navy. They separated on or about December 28, 1946, and never saw each other again until January 28, 1958, the day of the trial. The court found: "That by reason of a total variance in taste, dispositions, ambitions, mental attitudes and ideals of plaintiff and defendant, they were, and are, wholly and completely incompatible and unable to live together in peace." The appellee testified as follows: On cross-examination he was asked: Counsel for appellant, in his brief, disregards entirely the testimony of the appellee, argues the weight of appellant's testimony, and contends that the trial court erred in finding the parties incompatible. The findings of fact made by the trial court, including the one challenged, are supported by sufficient evidence of a substantial nature, and are therefore, for the purpose of review, the facts in the case. In reviewing the evidence on appeal, all disputed facts are resolved in favor of the successful party and all reasonable inferences indulged in to support the judgment. All evidence and inferences to the contrary will *946 be disregarded and the evidence viewed in the aspect most favorable to the judgment. We have spoken upon this substantial evidence rule so often that citation of authority is unnecessary. As to the trial court's refusal of appellant's requested findings of fact, suffice it to say that the refused findings were diametrically opposed to or inconsistent with the facts properly found by the trial court in support of the final decree and judgment. Therefore, the refusal was not error. Alexander v. Cowart, 58 N.M. 395, 271 P.2d 1005; Wedgwood v. Colclazier, 55 N.M. 32, 226 P.2d 99; Bezemek v. Balduini, 28 N.M. 124, 207 P. 330. In the case of Chavez v. Chavez, 39 N.M. 480, 50 P.2d 264, 267, 101 A.L.R. 635, Justice Hudspeth in a specially concurring opinion said: See, also, Poteet v. Poteet, 45 N.M. 214, 114 P.2d 91, and Pavletich v. Pavletich, 50 N.M. 224, 174 P.2d 826. Taking all of the facts of this case into consideration, together with the further fact that the parties were living in separate cities and did not see each other for more than twelve years, we cannot say that the final decree and judgment of the trial court in granting the divorce on the ground of incompatibility was clearly against the weight of the evidence. Finding no error in the record the final decree and judgment of the trial court is affirmed. It is so ordered. SADLER, McGHEE, COMPTON, and SHILLINGLAW, JJ., concur.