Supreme Court of India

Earnest John White v. Mrs. Kathleen Olive White and Others

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Reported as [1958] 1 S.C.R. 1410
Bench Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati J.
Decided 10 March 1958

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Divorce-Adultery-Standard of proof-Principle-Direct evidence if imperative-Finding of fact when can be interferred with-Divorce Act (IV of 1869), u. 14 and 1. The appellant sued his wife for dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery. · On the evidence the trial coun found that it wa5 not possible to bold that adultery had been committed, though it found that one of the letters contained "a large substratum of truth". The High Coun in appeal concurred with the decision. On appeal to the Supreme Coun it was contended for the appellant that the finding of the courts below was vitiated

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