Valentine v. Pollak
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for alienating the affections of, and for criminal conversation with, the plaintiff’s husband, brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County and tried to the jury before Haines, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $4,208, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
Errors assigned upon the appeal relate to the refusal of the trial court to set aside the verdict because excessive, and because of the exclusion of the testimony of the foreman of the jury as to the unlawful method of reaching the verdict, and to the erroneous instructions given the jury.
Injuries which the jury may have found the plaintiff suffered in consequence of the defendant’s acts, are the loss of her husband’s love and society, the. destruc tion of her home and happiness, the commission of adultery with her husband, and the suffering endured and to be endured in the anguish and…
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