Haines

This is an appeal from a judgment for damages for the alienation of the affections of a wife. The judgment was entered upon the rendering of the verdict of a jury. A reversal is sought upon the sole ground of insufficiency of the evidence to support the judgment.

The plaintiff and Gladys Cheney were married at Jackson, California, December 10, 1922. They immediately moved to Marshfield, Oregon, where they established a home and for some time lived happily. A daughter, Betty, was born as the issue of the marriage in 1924. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney, the parents of Mrs. Rogers, lived near lone, California, where her father was engaged in the occupation of hunting and trapping predatory animals. They had a son, named Albert, who was born in 1912. The defendant was a divorced man who lived at lone with his mother and infant daughter as neighbors of Mrs. Rogers’ parents. The defendant was engaged in raising sheep. In the summer of 1925, Mrs. Rogers visited her parents at lone and then met and associated with the defendant. After a visit of several weeks she returned to her home at Marshfield. Mr. Haines accompanied her as far as Sacramento. About two weeks later the defendant made an excuse…