Foot v. Card
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for the alienation by the defendant of the affections of the plaintiff’s husband; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County.
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Action for the alienation by the defendant of the affections of the plaintiff’s husband; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The declaratory part of the complaint was as follows:— 1. That the plaintiff was and is the wife of Enos Foot, of the town of New Haven, and in 1872, and for many years previous thereto, she was living happily with her said husband at New Haven as his wife. 2. About the year 1872 the defendant came to New Haven, and by her acts, blandishments and seductions alienated the love and affection of the plaintiff’s husband, and destroyed her happiness and the…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The plaintiff alleges that in the year 1872 she was living happily with, and in the enjoyment of the conjugal affection and society of, her husband Enos Foot: that in that year the defendant by her arts, blandishments and persuasion induced the said Enos Foot to begin, and from thence hitherto to continue, an adulterous intercourse with her; and that she thereby alienated from the plaintiff his conjugal affection, induced him to deny to her his conjugal society and persuaded him to abandon her. She asks damages for these injuries.
The defendant pleads in abatement that the plaintiff and her…
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