Antonelli v. Xenakis

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The plaintiff sued in trespass to recover damages from the defendant for the latter’s alleged criminal conversation with the plaintiff’s wife. The defendant filed preliminary objections which questioned the court’s jurisdiction on the grounds that the cause of action, as pleaded by the plaintiff, was for alienation of affections and that the Act of June 22, 1935, P. L. 450, Sec. 1, as amended by the Act of June 25,1937, P. L. 2317, Sec. 1, 48 PS § 170, abolished such actions save in certain instances not presently material. The learned court below held 1 that the…