State v. Loftus

1. adultery opportunity: election. I. The accused was the wife of James Loftus, with whom she had lived as such for twenty-eight years, and from whom she had been divorced prior to the commencement of this action, owing to cruel and inhuman treatment on his part. He testified # . that in the evening of July 26? 1904? his wife said she would sleep downstairs, and he came down at about 11 o’clock p. m., and discovered she had gone; that kferrifield lived across the street, and that he walked over and saw “ her coming from towards the barn, and Merrifield was standing in the bam door ”; that she…