Hamilton v. McNeill
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Mahasha District Court. — Hon. K. E. Willcockson, Judge. Action for damages for alienating affection. -'There was a verdict for plaintiff 'for $20,000. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
The plaintiff was married 'in December, 1899. On March 2, 1906, his wife obtained óf divorce from him in the district court of Mahaska County. Some timé after the decree of divorce, the defendant herein married the plaintiff’s former wife. Thereupon this action was brought. The defendant was an acquaintance of both parties for some years prior to the divorce. He was a bachelor about sixty years of age. At the time of his marriage to plaintiff’s former wife, he was sixty-three years of age and she was twenty-six. The plaintiff charged in his petition herein that the defendant alienated the…
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