Corrick v. Dunham
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Tama District Court. — Hon. C. B. Bradshaw, Judge. ' This is an action for damages for alienation of affection of plaintiff’s wife. There was a directed verdict for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
The defendants are the father and mother of the plaintiff’s wife. Since 1905 the plaintiff had been the hired' man of the defendants. lie was forty-seven years of age. In December, 1907, he secretly married the young daughter of the defendants; the ceremony being, performed in another county and without the knowledge of the parents. Some weeks after the marriage, the plaintiff left the home of the defendants and left his wife there, and, while absent therefrom, wrote a letter to the defendants, advising them of the fact, of his marriage to their daughter. A few days later he returned to the…
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