Pataskas v. Judeikis

The plaintiff has a verdict on a count for alienation of the affections of his wife and loss of consortium. The defendant excepts to the refusal of a directed verdict in his favor and to the admission in evidence of two letters and a telegram which the plaintiff contended had been sent by the defendant to the plaintiff’s wife.

If the disputed letters were part of the evidence, there was no error in the refusal to direct a verdict for the defendant. There was evidence that, until “the defendant appeared,” the plaintiff and his wife lived happily with their two children in a house which was…