Weicker v. Weicker

The principal question raised by these motions is whether a wife can sue her husband for damages for mental pain and anguish knowingly caused by his malicious and wanton acts as alleged in the second cause of action.

The first cause is for a declaratory judgment to establish the matrimonial status of the plaintiff and to declare void an alleged Mexican divorce and subsequent remarriage of the defendants Weicker and Littell, and to restrain defendants from representing themselves to be husband and wife and defendant Littell from assuming or using the name of Mrs. Lowell P. Weicker.

The second…