Key legal question
Whether the constitutional complaint could be examined alongside a pending federal appeal on the same judgment.
Extracted holding
The constitutional complaint had to be decided first only insofar as it raised issues not governed by the appeal; where the complaint duplicated appealable federal-law complaints, it was inadmissible.
Extracted reasoning
Under the subsidiary nature of constitutional complaint, matters that can be reviewed by federal appeal must be raised there; the wife’s challenge to the property-allocation findings fell within the scope of the appeal and could not be reviewed as arbitrariness.