Engel v. Conti
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for criminal conversation and for alienating the affections of the plaintiff’s wife, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Gager, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,250, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The complaint alleged that the affection of the plaintiff’s wife for him had been wholly destroyed and that he had wholly lost her society. In proof of this he testified at the trial that he had not lived with her or had any connection with her during the preceding eight months. On cross-examination he stated that within two weeks he had gone with her one evening from Hartford (where each then resided) to the neighboring city of New Britain, where they spent the night at a hotel in the same bedroom, she sleeping in the bed, and he on the floor and not with her.
Having stated on redirect…
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