Smith v. Rice
Supreme Court of Iowa
PRINCIPLE APPLIED: See No. 2. Appeal from Cherokee District Court. — W. D. Boies, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for alienation of the affections of the plaintiff’s wife. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
Plaintiff and his wife were married in 1889, and lived'together about 25 years. During that period, they made their home in several different states, and moved from one home to another many different times. Plaintiff was on occasion a clerk in a store, a rural mail carrier, and at times *675otherwise employed. Defendant, who is a cousin of the wife, is a widower, with a family of his own. He occasionally visited the Smiths. In the year 1914, plaintiff and wife were living near Cherokee; and, plaintiff being sick, defendant went there for the professed purpose of helping care for the plaintiff and…
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