Sonneman v. Atkinson

Plaintiff sued defendant for damages for alienating the affections of plaintiff’s wife. The jury returned a verdict for $20,000. Plaintiff remitted the excess over $15,000 and the court entered judgment for the latter sum. Defendant appealed.

William Sonneman, 23, and Artie Duckworth, 18, were married in North Platte on December 23, 1916. They had two children, a son, born February 24, 1920, and a daughter, born July 5, 1922. Until May 19, 1927, they lived together on rented farms in Lincoln county. In March of that year they had moved to a farm owned by defendant, who had several thousand…