Daniels v. Barker

I. The plaintiff alleges wrongful interference in the marital relations between her and her former husband. The defendants are his sister-in-law and nephew, and are mother and son. The plaintiff’s husband was well along in years when he married her. It is her claim that the defendants were actuated by mercenary motives, to obtain her husband’s property at his decease, as a reason for their alleged wrong.

The defendant sister-in-law testified that the relations between the husband and herself had been pleasant and friendly during a time preceding his marriage and continuing after it. The…