VAN SANT v. ROSS


171 A.2d 910 (1961)

John F. VAN SANT, Plaintiff, v. Donald Peabody ROSS and Wilhelmina DuPont Ross, Defendants.

Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle.

June 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. B. Rubenstein, Wilmington (of Leshem & Rubenstein, Wilmington), for plaintiff.

James M. Tunnell, Jr., and Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr., Wilmington (of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington), for defendants.


LYNCH, Judge.

Plaintiff sued defendants, charging alienation of affections of plaintiff's wife. Plaintiff's wife was defendants' daughter.

The complaint alleged that defendants (1) (¶ 6) "exerted enormous and effective economic and other pressures upon the plaintiff and his wife, interferred with initial marriage adjustments, and criticized and disparaged the marriage relation for the purpose of alienating their love and affection and for the purpose...

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