Tasker v. Stanley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OE TORT, each against the defendant first named therein and his wife, for alienating the affections of the plaintiff’s wife and enticing her to leave him. The cases were tried together in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Two ACTIONS OE TORT, each against the defendant first named therein and his wife, for alienating the affections of the plaintiff’s wife and enticing her to leave him. The cases were tried together in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff introduced evidence, which was contradicted, tending to show that the acts of the defendants towards the plaintiff, and their statements and acts towards the plaintiff’s wife and statements to her against and concerning the plaintiff, did alienate her affections from the plaintiff. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
These are actions for procuring and enticing the plaintiff’s wife to live separately from him. They are not actions of the type of Lynch v. Knight, 9 H. L. Cas. 577, brought for a slander in consequence of which his wife left him, but they are brought for persuasions which may have been based wholly upon the truth. That is all that is alleged in the declarations, and, so far as appears from the bill of exceptions, there was. no evidence offered that the defendants spoke any falsehoods, or that their conduct was unlawful for any other reason than its tendency to produce a separation. Winsmore…
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