Roe v. Doe

This is the melancholy chronicle of the naval officer’s widow and the cad. The fact that the navy was that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and that the cad is now a prosperous medical practitioner, is only incidental. Although he is hardly deserving of the compassion he himself never mani*834fested, I have captioned this opinion ‘ ‘ Boe v. Doe ’ ’ to save this pillar of the medical and residential community the embarrassment of having his identity revealed.

In 1934 the lady, at that time an attractive 29-year-old widow, first met the man with whom she was to have the ill-fated romance that proved…