Brummett v. Evans

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

This suit was instituted to recover $250,000 compensatory damages and $250,000 punitive damages, for alienation of' affections of the wife of plaintiff. Jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship, plaintiff being a resident of Ohio and defendant a former resident of Tennessee. Suit was filed on August 9,- 1956 and defendant died testate September 14, 1956. Harry Brown and Charles Smith of Jellico, Tennessee, were named as co-executors and co-trustees of the estate of the deceased and qualified as such on October 9, 1956. The co-executors and co-trustees…