Wallen v. Gorman

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas rendered on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff in an alienation of affections action for the sum of four thousand ($4,000) dollars.

The facts of the case will be disclosed during a discussion of the assignments of error, the first of which is that “the court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.”

In considering this assignment of error, it is well to remember that “the trial judge must assume the truth of the evidence in behalf of the…