McVey v. Blair

Blair sued Me Vey in the Marion Circuit Court, for debauching his, Blair's, wife. The venue was changed to the Hamilton Circuit Court. Verdict against McVey for 1,200 dollars, upon which the Court, over a motion for a new trial, rendered judgment. It appeared in evidence that in August, 1853, one jSloan kept a public house on the Michigan road, six miles south of Indianapolis; that about nine o’clock in the evening, McVey, the de*591fendant, Maria Blair, the plaintiff’s wife, and a boy fourteen years old, named James Matlock, arrived at Sloan’s house, when Me Vey inquired of Sloan whether he…