Button v. Knight
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action ok Tort for the alienation of the affections of the plaintiff’s wife. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September- Term, 1919, Washington County, Butter, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
As submitted to the jury, the-ease charges the defendant with alienation by enticement. The verdict was for the plaintiff, and the defendant alleges error.
[1-3] Mrs. Haywood, the mother of Mrs. Button, wife of the plaintiff, was a witness for the defendant. After testifying that she had visited at her daughter’s at different times, she was asked in direct examination if Mrs.* Button had complained to her of the plaintiff’s conduct toward her. Upon plaintiff’s objection, the question was excluded, and an exception saved.
It had appeared that Mrs. Button left her husband in October, 1917, and…
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