Reilly v. Reilly
Reilly v. Reilly
Opinion of the Court
This suit .was instituted by the appellee, Pearl Reilly, against her husband, W. T. Reilly, for a divorce and the custody of their minor child. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant failed and refused to furnish the necessaries of life for herself and child; that defendant disregarded his marital vows by associating himself on different occasions with women of questionable character; that during the month of May, 1920, the defendant assaulted the plaintiff, and inflicted upon her bodily pain and injury, without justification or provocation on her part.
• The defendant answered with demurrers, general and special denials of the facts alleged by the plaintiff, and in turn sought a divorce and the custody of said child by cross-action, alleging certain acts, denominated as cruel, such as would render their further living together as husband and wife insupportable, and such as would render plaintiff an improper person to have the custody of their said child.
The trial was before the court without a jury, and after a hearing of the evidence the prayer of the plaintiff for a divorce and for the custody of the minor child was granted. From the judgment so rendered, the defendant-has appealed.
Appellant’s assignments of error present but two questions. In the inverse order of their presentation they are: First, whether the court erred in admitting the testimony of the witness Sam Bench; and, second, whether the evidence, as a whole, is sufficient to support the judgment.
■Sam Bench, among other things, testified:
“I was present one Sunday afternoon when Mr. and Mrs. Reilly were ’out kodaking and had a little fuss. Mr. Clarence Reilly and Mrs. -r and myself and Mr. and Mrs. Reilly were present. They were kodaking, and all got ready to go, and Mrs. Reilly wanted to take another picture, and W. T. didn’t want her to; he wanted her to get into the car. .He stepped out of the car and told her to get into the car, and slapped her, and they got in the car, and we left. It was a hard lick he struck her. He hit her pretty near hard enough to knock her down. I took it he was angry. After they got home, I heard him say he wished she would leave. He didn’t tell her where he wished she would go to.”
The following, omitting formal parts, is the bill of exception presented as supporting the objection to Bench’s testimony:
“Be it remembered that trial was had upon the above entitled and numbered cause on the 17th day of November, 1920, whereupon a judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and thereupon in open court the defendant duly excepted to said judgment for the following reasons, to wit: Because the court erred in admitting the testimony of Sam Bench over the objection of. the defendant after said witness had been in the courtroom and heard a number of witnesses testify after the rule had been duly invoked, and defendant here and *380 now tender this his bill of exception No. 11, and asks that the same be allowed and ordered filed as a part of the record in this cause, which is accordingly done, this the 30th day of December, A. D. 1020.”
We conclude that the judgment must be affirmed; and it is so ordered.
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