Joseph K. Orr v. Robert J. Sasseman

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellee here was the plaintiff below in an action for the alienation by the defendant-appellant of the affections of the plaintiff’s wife. The plaintiff is a resident of Evanston, Illinois. The defendant resides in Georgia. Federal jurisdiction rests on diversity of citizenship.

The plaintiff and his wife, Robert J. and Cornelia Cameron Sasseman, spent the 1954 Christmas Holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Cameron, in Atlanta, Georgia. The defendant, Joseph K. Orr, had been a friend of the Camerons for some years and a frequent visitor in their home. The…