McKay v. McKay

JOHNSON, J. —

Plaintiff sued for the recovery of both actual and exemplary damages for the alienation of the affections of her husband by defendant, his foster father. The jury found for plaintiff, assessed her actual damages at $3000 and exemplary damages in the sum of $1500, but on the hearing of the motion for a new trial plaintiff (moved thereto by expressions from the court) entered a remittitur of $2000, whereupon the motion was overruled, judgment was rendered for plaintiff for $2500, and defendant appealed.

Plaintiff, at the age of fifteen, and Homer McKay, at the age of twenty, were…