Dube v. Rochette

Action to recover damages by a husband for the alienation of his wife’s affections by the defendant. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence in a trial by jury the Court (Botones, J.) granted the defendant’s motion for a nonsuit and reserved and transferred the plaintiff’s exception thereto.

This state enacted in 1941 a so-called heart balm statute (see Vol. 1 Shepard’s N. H. Citations, p. 429 (1959)) which abolished actions for breach of contract to marry. Laws 1941, ch. 150; RSA 508:11. The statute by its terms has a limited application ( Gikas v. Nicholis, 96 N. H. 177, 71 A. 2d 785 ) and…