Court Opinion

ID: 9727836
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 13:51:00.456707+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:43.424001
License: Public Domain

SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON DENIAL OF REHEARING Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GOLDBERG delivered the opinion of the court: The petition for rehearing filed by defendant criticizes our opinion for not stating the testimony of Doctor Wilkey and Doctor Daro. The petition states that this testimony “bears directly on the issue whether Mary Daley and her Mother are to be believed.” This language requires an additional statement on our part. Of course we were and are familiar with the testimony of these two doctors. However, our opinion did not purport to state or summarize every minute portion of the testimony. We feel that we are limited by considerations of time and space to a statement of the material matters. As shown in our opinion, the issue here was not whether plaintiff was actually pregnant at the time of the marriage. The date of ascertainment of pregnancy is not, in our view, material. The important factor, as stated by the trial court, is the belief of plaintiff as to the marital status of defendant at the time their marriage was solemnized. As our opinion shows, the trial court expressly found that plaintiff was without fault and later changed this proper result without hearing additional evidence. Thus, we considered the testimony of these two doctors not directly material. Their testimony did not, in our estimation, impeach either plaintiff or her mother. The issue of the exact time of commencement of pregnancy or the exact date of its disclosure was collateral and did not bear upon plaintiff’s knowledge of defendant’s marital status. The petition for rehearing is accordingly denied. O’CONNOR and CAMPBELL, JJ., concur.