Norris v. Stoneham

Recovery was had below on two severable causes of action. We shall first make a statement of the case applicable to one of these, and, after considering it, shall make an additional statement applicable to the other. Appellee, Mrs. H. W. Stoneham, is a married woman. She instituted this action in her own name, without being joined by her husband, against appellant, Mrs. Pearl Norris, an unmarried woman, fcu^, damages alleged to have been sustained by her on account of the alienation of her husband’s affections. Her petition charged, in substance, that, beginning in the month of July, 1928,…