Oppenheim v. . Kridel

Can a wife maintain an action for criminal conversation as well as a husband? This is the question presented by this appeal.

The plaintiff and her husband were married in 1884 and had one child, who was married in 1909. They lived together in the same house or apartment until 1917. It can be gathered from the evidence that in 1913 the parties had ceased to live together as husband and wife. It is about this time that the defendant, a widow with children, entered into the lives of these two parties. From 1913 until a final separation in 1917 the husband seems to have lost his love and affection…