159 Ind. App. 98 - Freeman v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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1. ““The disposition of children presents a delicate and perplexing task which has taxed the wisdom of judges since the day of Solomon. The trial court is better able to arrive at a sound and safe conclusion than can a court of review which has only the cold printed or typed record before it. It is true that the facts in this case are not in great dispute but even where evidentiary facts are admitted different inferences and conclusions may be drawn therefrom, and conclusions and judgments may hang upon intangibles and impressions not cognizable to a court of review. The trial court in this case saw the mother and the stepmother and was in better position to weigh the evidence and the inferences therefrom and determine the best interest of the child, and having done so, it is not for us to substitute our judgment for the judgment of the trial court’s unless it appear from uncontradicted and undisputed evidence and the only inferences therefrom that the trial court violated its discretion and reached an untenable position. To reverse this case would require us to hold that the trial judge violated sound judicial discretion in reaching his conclusion. This we are unwilling to do.” See also: Cox v. Cox (1973), 155 Ind. App. 336 , 292 N.E.2d 817 (transfer denied); Shaw v. Shaw (1973), 159 Ind. App. 33 , 304 N.E.2d 536 ; Freeman v . Freeman (1973), 159 Ind. App. 98 , 304 N.E.2d 865 (transfer denied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 163 Ind. App. 346 - Franks v. Franks