Reading v. Gazzam
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 214, Jan. T., 1900, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1898, No. 1456, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Elizabeth G. Reading v. Anna Reading Gazzam. Trespass to recover damages for the alienation of a husband’s affections.
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Appeal, No. 214, Jan. T., 1900, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1898, No. 1456, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Elizabeth G. Reading v. Anna Reading Gazzam. Trespass to recover damages for the alienation of a husband’s affections. Before McCarthy, J. Plaintiff’s statement of claim was as follows: Anna Reading Gazzam, the defendant above named, has been summoned to answer Elizabeth G. Reading, the plaintiff, in a plea of trespass, in which the plaintiff claims from the defendant the sum of $100,000, the ground of which complaint is as follows: Whereas, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb Justice Bbown,
If there was evidence in this case to sustain the appellee’s complaint that the appellant had taken from her the society and affection of her husband, and, by causing him to abandon *106her, had deprived her of the support due her as his wife, the judgment before us cannot be disturbed. This seems to be conceded by the learned counsel representing the appellant, who take no exception to what the court below said to the jury as to the law in a proceeding like this, and assign as the single error appearing on the record the refusal to affirm the only point submitted, that…
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