Giltner v. Stark

MASON, Justice.

This is an appeal by defendant, Joseph S. Stark, from a judgment rendered on an adverse jury verdict. J. Norton Giltner instituted a law action against defendant in the Jefferson district court seeking both compensatory and exemplary damages alleged to have been sustained as a consequence of defendant’s wrongful interference with plaintiff’s interest in the marital relationship existing between plaintiff and plaintiff’s wife Carolyn.

The first division of plaintiff’s petition is based on a claim for criminal conversation. In this division plaintiff alleged Stark willfully and…