What is the test for damages for the alienation of a wife by her husband to her husband who has been accused of adultery?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from S. v. D., 1922 CanLII 192 (SK QB):
In Bannister v. Thompson, supra, Middleton, J. decided that notwithstanding the fact that a wife still remains in her husband’s house, though occupying separate apartments, and that adultery has not been proved, an action will lie in damages for the “enticing away and alienation of her affections.”
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