54 A.D.2d 687 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1976
In a matrimonial action in which, after a trial, Special Term directed that a judgment of divorce be entered in favor of the respondent wife, and in which the husband has since died, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered October 27, 1975, which denied appellant’s motion to permit the entry of a judgment of divorce nunc pro tunc as of May 23, 1974. Order reversed, on the law and in the interest of justice, with $50 costs and disbursements, and motion granted. The findings of fact are affirmed. In this matrimonial action, Special Term, on May 23, 1974, upon the uncontested withdrawal of the decedent’s complaint, and after a trial, granted a divorce to respondent, Hazel Wooldridge Jayson, on her counterclaim. Although directed to do so, neither party submitted proposed findings of fact or a decree of divorce. The defendant husband committed suicide on