Court Opinion

ID: 6689868
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 21:36:44.709656+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:04.719335
License: Public Domain

WHITING, J.
Plaintiff seeks divorce on ground of cruelty. Defendant, after lapse of several months, asks leave to serve and file an amended answer, which answer is the original answer, to *15which is added a cross-bill seeking divorce because of alleged infidelity and cruelty. From an order allowing the serving and filing of such amended' answer, this appeal was taken.
Defendant filed' affidavits in support of' the application to amend. Such affidavits did not contain such clean-cut statements as to time when defendant first learned, of the alleged infidelity as should be found in an affidavit in support of prayer to amend. On the other hand, plaintiff filed affdavits showing that this charge of infidelity had been made several years ago, and at about the time defendant now claims that it occurred; that because of such charges this plaintiff at that time institutéd divorce proceedings; that defendant retracted such charges; and that; because of such retraction, plaintiff dismissed her action' and resumed marriage relations with defendant. We are of the opinion that, if plaintiff’s objection to the amended answer had been directed solely to the part charging infidelity, the trial court should have sustained such objection, in the absence of some further showing by defendant. But plaintiff’s objection was directed to the whole amendment, and the ends of justice clearly require the trial court to pass upon the allegations of cruelty contained in such cross-bill. It follows that the trial court did not err in overruling the objections, directed, as they were, to the whole cross-bill.
The order appealed from is affirmed.