Stepp v. Black

In this action Earl H. Black recovered a judgment, upon the verdict of a jury, against Ewin Stepp for $8000, for criminal conversation with his wife, alienation of her affections and seduction.

The plaintiff and his wife were married in the» year 1919 and lived together as husband and wife until October 15, 1929, since which time, although married, they had not lived together. Four children, girls, were born to them. For three or four years prior to the commencement of this action they lived as tenants on the farm of an uncle of the defendant, about three-fourths of a mile from a store of the…