Townsend v. . Holderby

Whatever may be the law in other jurisdictions, it is settled in this State by authoritative decisions of this Court, that a married woman, who has been abandoned by her husband, can maintain an action in her own name for a, tort. Brown v. Brown, 121 N. C., 8, 27 S. E., 998. In that case it was held that a complaint in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant had alienated the affections of her husband, and induced him to abandon her and to refuse to contribute anything .to her support, was not demurrable on the ground that it appeared on the face of the complaint that there was a…