Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — Novel Court Decision. [ARTICLE]

Novel Court Decision.

A novel decision has been given by a New York jury in the Supreme Court in the suit of Mrs. Grace Frezevant against Mrs. Mary L. Ifrexetant, claiming <50,CtM) for alienating her husband’s affections. The verdict was as follows: “A rich woman cannot alienate the affections of another woman’s husband if he is poor. For, being poor, he will try to win the affections of the rich woman, and she should not further suffer, pecuniarily, if ■he reciprocates the poor man’s love, real or pretended.”