Mumper v. Webster

TMs is an action for alienating the affections of Frank Alfano, plaintiff’s former husband, from whom she is now divorced. Upon the trial of the cause before the court and jury, plaintiff, over the objections of defendant, was permitted to prove the following declarations alleged to have been made by Alfano:

Charles Bossio testified as follows:

“The conversation was that Frank Alfano told me that he was in kind of a bad boat. I said, ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Why,’ he said, ‘I think Vida is pregnant.’ ‘Well,’ I says, ‘You will have to marry the girl, that is all.’ He said, ‘How can I? I didn’t get…