TAYLOR v. PATTEN

No. 8119.

2 Utah 2d 404 (1954)

275 P.2d 696

GOLDA TAYLOR, APPELLANT, v. STANFORD PATTEN, RESPONDENT.

Supreme Court of Utah.

October 26, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Briton McConkie, Salt Lake City, for appellant.

Dean E. Terry, Young, Young & Sorensen, Provo, for respondent.


WADE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Golda Taylor, appeals from a dismissal of her complaint against defendant Stanford Patten, respondent here, who was formerly her husband. She alleged that he intentionally beat and assaulted her during the interlocutory period of their divorce action while they were living apart. The dismissal is reversed because under our statutes a wife may recover from her husband for intentionally inflicted injuries.

Although our statutes do not...

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