Smith v. Hockenberry

This is an action for criminal conversation. The case was before the court at the October term of 1904, and is reported in 138 Mich. 129, where a sufficient statement of the main features of the case is given. It was there held that on the record as there made there was no proof to sustain defendant’s claim that the plaintiff connived at his wife’s criminal intimacy with the defendant, and that the wife’s alleged statements to witnesses that her husband knew of her intimacy with other men were incompetent. It was also held that testimony relative to the criminal intimacy of plaintiff’s wife…