Norton v. MacFarlane

STEWART, Justice:

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s order denying defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s tort actions for alienation of affections and criminal conversation. On this appeal, we are again urged to abolish the tort of alienation of affections as well as the tort of criminal conversation.

Plaintiff Norton’s complaint alleges that he and his wife, Sherry Norton, had three children during their marriage and that they lived happily and contentedly together until the summer of 1985. The complaint alleges that at that time defendant Macfar-lane, a physician,…