Vance v. Vance

The facts of this case would appear to be more at home in a plot of a “soap opera” than in a court of law because a recitation of them should begin with “Once upon a time____” Yet, there is evidence demonstrating that they are true, and truth, as Lord Byron said, “is always strange; Stranger than fiction.” 1

We are here concerned with a civil suit by a woman against a man for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, assault and battery, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress, 2 grounded on their ostensible relationship as husband and wife and growing out of a petition by the man to…