Cahoon v. Pelton
Utah Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
WADE,' Justice.
Defendant, Robert P. Pelton, appeals from a jury verdict judgment in favor of plaintiff, Howard B. Cahoon, respondent here, on two counts: the first for aliena*227tion of his former wife Dorothy’s affections, and the second for criminal conversation with her. There were two trials: in the first the jury found no alienation of affections hut that there was criminal conversation, assessing $20,000 compensatory and $5,000 punitive damages. After the first trial the court granted defendant’s motion for a new trial after plaintiff refused its order to remit $19,000.
On the second trial…
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