McNELIS v. BRUCE

No. 6877.

90 Ariz. 261 (1961)

367 P.2d 625

Ruth McNELIS, Appellant, v. Margaret Ann BRUCE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

December 29, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Johnson, Phoenix, for appellant.

Harry Stewart, Jr., and Trew, Woodford & Dodd, Phoenix, for appellee.


STRUCKMEYER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment wherein plaintiff recovered $15,000 compensatory damages and $7,500 punitive damages based on a claim that the defendant had alienated the affections of plaintiff's husband.

The plaintiff-appellee and one Robert Bruce were married on December 4, 1954, at Salome, Arizona. Plaintiff at the time was seventeen and Bruce was thirty-five or thirty-six years of age. In January of 1955 plaintiff and Bruce...

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