Ruhs v. Ruhs

The plaintiff recovered a judgment for $8,000 against the defendant, her father-in-law, in an action for damages for alienating the affections of the plaintiff’s husband, Ernest Ruhs. Defendant has appealed.

The petition is in the usual form of such actions, and charges in substance that, soon after the marriage of the plaintiff and Ernest Ruhs, the defendant, with the intention of causing a separation between the plaintiff and her *664husband, knowingly and falsely upon various occasious represented to the said Ernest Ruhs that the plaintiff had been guilty of illicit conduct with other men; that…