Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1916 — ALIENATION SUIT BROUGHT FOR $15,000 [ARTICLE]

ALIENATION SUIT BROUGHT FOR $15,000

Samuel Duvall Brings Suit For Damages Against Rev. Paul C. Curnick and Others. By his attorneys, Moses Leopold and W. H. Parkinson, Samuel Duvall this Tuesday afternoon brought suit in the circuit court against Rev. Paul C. Curnick, his father-in-law, Mrs. Hattie Curnick, his mother-in-law, and John Simonin, brother of Mrs. Curnick, in which he asks damages to the amount of $15,000 from the defendants. There has been rumors for some weeks that such an action might be brought. Mrs. Duvall left home in January , and went to Evansville in January and it is reported that Mr. Duvall went thert on two different occasions to'see if he could effect a reconciliation, the last visit being last Sunday, he returning home Monday without his wife. The plaintiff has given up housekeeping, sold some of his household goods, and is at present living with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall. Rev. Curnick is pastor of the M. E. church in Rensselaer and the secret marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Duvall at Kalamazoo, Mich., two years ago in June is still remembered by many. The complaint, as filed in the circuit court, follows: The plaintiff complains of the defendants and says that on the 17th day of June, 1914, this plaintiff and Pauline Curnick were married at Kalamazoo, Mich.; that they lived together as husband and wife, in the city of Renssealer, Ind., until the 26th day of January, 1916, at which time they were separated by and through the wrongful acts of the defendants hereinafter complained of. That the said Paul C. Curnick is the father of this plaintiff’s said wife, Pauline Duvall, and the said defendant Hattie Curnick is the mother of said plaintiff's said wife, Pauline Duvall, and the defendant, John Seminon, is the brother of the defendant, Hattie Curnick. That the defendants contriving, and wrongfully, wickedly, maliciously,. and unjustly intending to injure the said plaintiff and to deprive him of the comfort, fellowship, society, association, aid and assistance of his said wife, Pauline Duvall, and alienate and destroy her affection for him, they, the said defendants, FAul C. Curnick, Hattie-CuHHsk- - -JohaSemonin, did, from the time this plaintiff and his said wife, Pauline Duvall, were married until the said 26th day of January *Pk9i(j, unlawfully, unjustly, wrongfully and maliciously tempt, entice, persuade and allure the said Pauline Duvall, his wife, to abandon him, his house and home, and to live away and apart from him. Plaintiff avers that since the 26th day of January, 1916, until the commencement of this suit, and during all that time, the defendants harbored, sheltered and cared for the said Pauline Duvall, his said wife, and wickedly, wrongfully and maliciously contrived to alienate the affections of the said Pauline Duvall from him and maliciously persuaded and induced her to refuse to receive him as her husband, and to live with him; and thereby and because .of the wrongful, malicious and wicked acts of the said defendants, the said Paul C. Curnick, Hattie Curnick and John Simonin, the affection of the said Pauline Duvall for him this plaintiff was then and thereby alienated and destroyed; and by means of the premises the plaintiff has hitherto wholly lost and been ’eprived of the comfort, fellowship, society, aid, asPauline Duvall in his domestic affairs, which he, the plaintiff, during all that time ought to have had, and otherwise might and would have had, to his damage in the sum of $15,000. —Wherefore, plaintiff sues and demands^"jt^ment“as'against said defendants in the sum of $15,000, and all proper relief in the premises.