Murphy v. Willumsen

Plaintiff, bringing suit seeking damages for the alleged alienation of her husband’s affections by defendant, upon trial by a jury had a verdict for $6,500, from which defendant appeals.

As there must be another trial we shall advert only briefly to the evidence. June, 1917, plaintiff, then an unmarried woman, gave birth to a child and she says Frank Murphy is its father.' Plaintiff was married to Frank Murphy December 24, 1917. The evidence also tends to show that for some time previous- to this marriage Frank Murphy had been living with a woman named Mildred Collins; that they lived together…