Baird v. Douglass
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Frank S. Douglass, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 4th day of April, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action for the alienation of the affections of the plaintiff’s wife, who, it is alleged, was induced by defendant to leave plaintiff’s home on or about the 13th of May, 1919. The action was commenced on the twenty-third of June thereafter, and defendant was taken into custody on an order of arrest and released on giving a bond to secure the payment of any judgment recovered in the action. The answer is a general denial and a defense that the affections of the plaintiff’s wife for him were destroyed by his own misconduct before she left him. Defendant was not present at…
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- Rodzborski v. . American Sugar Refining Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1914
- Strickland v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
- Branoner v. Traitel Marble Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911
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