Underwood v. Linton

"Worden, C. J.

This was an action by the appellee, against the appellant, to recover damages for alleged criminal intercourse between the defendant and the plaintiff’s wife. Trial by jury; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff'. Motion for a new trial overruled, and exception.

On the trial of the cause the plaintiff offered in evidence a certain paper, written by his wife, tending to show the alleged' criminal intercourse, but which was not sent to or ever in possession of the defendant. The plaintiff' testified in relation to the paper that he came home on a certain occasion and found his…