Court Opinion

ID: 6620507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 20:29:10.398693+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:58:41.532354
License: Public Domain

ELLISON, J.
The plaintiff sued defendant for divorce on account of indignities and obtained a decree in the trial court. Defendant appealed to this court by what is termed the short form.
*328On appeals in actions for divorce, this conrt determines the facts for itself. In snch cases it is apparent that this conrt must have before it all of the evidence given at the trial. It is as necessary for ns to have the evidence complete as it is for the trial conrt, since we must weigh the evidence as if passing on all questions of fact originally. In this case there is but a short resume of the evidence presented in the abstract. Indeed, the testimony of some witnesses and some exhibits are omitted entirely; so that we are asked to pass upon the facts of a case established by evidence, about five-sixths of which is withheld from ns.
The law is that the rulings, conclusions and judgment of the trial conrt are presumed to be correct until the contrary is made to appear by the appellant. The alleged errors of the trial court all relate to those things which evidence may or may not have shown the court’s action to be correct. For instance, complaint is made of the court’s action in admitting evidence of communications between plaintiff and defendant when third parties were not present. But yet the entire evidence, if it had been presented here, may have shown that the decree was for the right party without considering such communications.
The record proper shows no error. The petition, as amended, stated a cause of action and, on its face, disclosed jurisdiction. The judgment will therefore be affirmed.
All concur.