Long v. Booe
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Wilkebson. This action was brought on July 28, 1892, by the appellee, DeWitt Booe, against the appellant, Robert W Long, to recover damages for the defilement of plaintiff’s wife by defendant, and the alienation of plaintiff’s wife’s affections. • The complaint contained two counts.
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Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Wilkebson. This action was brought on July 28, 1892, by the appellee, DeWitt Booe, against the appellant, Robert W Long, to recover damages for the defilement of plaintiff’s wife by defendant, and the alienation of plaintiff’s wife’s affections. • The complaint contained two counts. The first count alleged that the defendant, contriving and wrongfully, wickedly and unjustly intending to injure plaintiff and to deprive him of the comfort, fellowship, society, aid and assistance of his wife, and to alienate and destroy her…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
— The several exceptions reserved to testimony as to conversations between Booe and his wife on the occasion when the latter’s adultery with Long was made known to the former were emasculated by the subsequent exclusion of all such evidence, except in so far as it went to show the naked fact of Booe’s coming at that time to a knowledge of the infidelity of his wife ; and we do not understand that the competency of the testimony for this limited purpose is questioned by the appellant.
The only other exception taken to the admission of testimony had reference to letters which passed between the…
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