Martin v. Ball

1. It is essential to a right of action in a husband for the privation of the consortium of his wife, when a recovery is not sought upon the ground of adultery, that the party complained against acted with the intent to produce the wrong to the husband, -or that the party’s acts were inherently wrong and so seductive in their nature as to authorize the inference that the wrong was intended, and furthermore that such party’s conduct was a proximately contributing cause of the husband’s injury. 13 R. C. L., 1458 et seq; 30 C. J., 1118 et seq; 1 Cooley on Torts (3d ed.), 464 et seq.

2. The…