Opinion ID: 1725117
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Loss of Affection

Text: There is ample evidence to support a jury finding that by 1971 Barbara Gorder had transferred her affections to defendant Sims. The jury was entitled to accept the testimony of plaintiff that in May of 1971 his wife told him in the presence of the defendant that she was in love with Sims. If the jury accepted this testimony, as it was entitled to do, it could believe that the relationship between Barbara Gorder and Sims between 1968 and 1971 was not so platonic as was represented by them. The jury would have been justified in concluding that meetings between Barbara Gorder and Sims in May and June of 1971, at strange hours and in unusual places, were not consistent with a continued affection for her husband. It is true, as defendant claims, that there is testimony in the record from which the jury, had it chosen to do so, could have concluded that Barbara Gorder looked upon defendant as a counselor and friend in need rather than as a paramour. But it did not do so and we are not free to say that the jurors erred in giving the evidence an interpretation supportive of plaintiff's claims. [5]