Hall v. Smith

This is a motion for a temporary injunction in an action brought by the plaintiff, a wife, against the defendant, a woman, who is charged with having enticed away or alienated from the plaintiff the love and affection of her husband, whereby the plaintiff has been deprived of the society of her husband, ever since the time when he first met the defendant on or about the 1st day of July, 1906.

Although at common law it was said that the wife could not maintain an action for the alienation of her husband’s affections, or for the consequent loss of consortium, because, among other things, of the…