Court Opinion

ID: 9651210
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 16:10:21.298003+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:31.123042
License: Public Domain

GRONER, Chief Justice
(concurring)
The testimony of the wife's adultery was given under a stipulation that it should be considered only on the question of her fitness to have custody of the child. In her testimony she denied the truth of the charge. The trial judge, in granting the decree of divorce and in giving the custody of the child to the wife, recognized that he had the power to deny a decree of divorce whenever and however it appeared that the moving party had been guilty of conduct that could be made the basis of a defense, if asserted, but the judge also thought that he had the right, in the public interest, to decline to exercise discretion in this respect. In considering all the evidence here, he concluded that in the interest of society generally and equally in the interest of the parties, and particularly in the interest of the infant child, the marriage should be dissolved and the custody of the child awarded to the wife.
I am willing to vote for an affirmance of the decree in this case on these grounds.