Karchner v. Mumie

Opinion by

M!r. Justice McBride,

Plaintiff-wife sought compensatory and punitive damages in trespass for criminal conversation alleged to have occurred between defendant and plaintiff’s husband. The jury found for plaintiff and judgment was entered on the verdict.

On this appeal defendant contends that the plaintiff, being a married woman, has no right of action for criminal conversation. There is no appellate Pennsylvania authority on this point. Criminal conversation, at early common law, was an action brought by the husband against the other man with whom his wife committed adultery. The…