Court Opinion

ID: 9849024
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:33:15.073726+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:57.591407
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Felton, Chief Judge,
concurring specially. I do not concur in all that is said in division 1 of the opinion. In my opinion the original was duplicitous in that it set forth a cause of action for alienation of affections and criminal conversation, these causes of action being separate and distinct. The demurrer raising the question of duplicity resulted in an amendment striking the reference in the petition to criminal conversation, which left the cause of action for alienation of affections. It was ruled in Sessions v. Parker, 174 Ga. 296 (162 SE 790), that at common law a right of action existed even in favor of a wife for the alienation of the affections of her husband but that the remedy to sue in her own name remained in abeyance. There are no express allegations of adulterous conduct in the petition and there is none by necessary implication either as a cause of action or in aggravation of damages.
*122As to the special demurrers calling for specific allegation of time when certain acts occurred, in view of the fact that the petition alleged the dates between which the actions occurred the time is alleged with enough definiteness to permit a full defense. Mu Chapter Bldg. Fund, Inc. v. Henry, 204 Ga. 846 (51 SE2d 841, 7 ALR2d 431). I agree with the other matters stated in the opinion and concur in the judgment.