Taylor v. Keefe

This is an action on behalf of a minor son to recover of the defendant for the alienation of his mother’s affections. The trial court sustained the defendant’s demurrer to the complaint and, upon the plaintiff’s failure to plead further, entered judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiff has appealed. The following facts stand admitted upon the demurrer. For many years the plaintiff had been living happily with his mother. In 1943 the defendant by his arts, blandishments and seductions alienated her love and affection and destroyed the happiness of the plaintiff’s home. In…