Paulson v. Scott

The plaintiff was married to Helen Gun-derson in December, 1946. The evidence sustains the determination that in spite of some difficulties between them a consistent marriage relation continued until the defendant Scott became the employer of plaintiff’s wife.

The essential elements constituting a cause of action for alienation of affections are: “(a) The wrongful conduct of the defendant; (b) plaintiff’s loss of the affection or consortium of the other spouse; and (c) causal connection between such conduct and such loss.” Maahs v. Schultz (1932), 207 Wis. 624, 633, 242 N. W. 195.

The claimed…