Clayton v. Clayton

This is an action brought against John R. Clayton and Annie Clayton, his wife, for the alienation of the affection of the plaintiff’s husband. The complaint alleges the marriage of the parties in 1915, that thereafter for more than fourteen years the plaintiff had lived happily with her husband and, in paragraph three, that during the year 1930 the defendants, intending to injure the plaintiff and deprive her of her husband’s protection, society and support, by their arts, blandishments and seductions, had wilfully and maliciously alienated his love and affection. After the trial began the…