New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1927, Page 5

BEAUTY’S HUSBAND LOSES LAWSUIT | | | | | Louisiana’s First Alienation | Aeion Fals | New Orleans, Dec. 20. (M—The | husband of Virginia Hobbs Moulin, | Louisiana beauty, 1is the loser in | Loulsiana’s first and only suit for | zlienation of affections. | Augustin R. Moulin t against Frank J. Monteleone, althy New Orleans foclety man, | ‘charging the latter with winning | away the affections of his wife and asking $80,000 {n damages. Mrs. | Moulln is a former beauty prize winner of Memphis. The lower court held that he no cause of actlon, and in a d 4ion upon appeal, Chiof Justice Charles A, O'Neil of the state supreme court confirms the opinion | and voices opposition to “reducing a woman's affections to a column of figures” Marriage is considered only as | 1 civil contract in Louisiana, and the law does not authorize inflic- tion of punitive damages in eivil cases. In the 200 years since Bien- vills founded the city of New Or- | leans and the provincs of Loulsi- ana, the Moulin suit is the first | of its sort in stato courts. “A law that would allow the hus- nd compens 1 in money for a wrong woull be revolting fo majority of men” Justice{ ('Nell says, “and might tend| mors to encourage blackmall than | to protect the home.” At common law, he moints out, | > right of action for damages in alienation of a wife's affections is, based partly on “the obsolete idea that the wife is one of the hus- hand's chattels, But in Lonisiana the wife now has every prerogative possessed by her hushand. “It would he ahsurd, therefore, to givs the husband the right of | action for damages for alienation of the wife's affections on the brought civil ! plays the warning in 22 clares. He advocates a NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1927. penal | ¢ (] statute as the best means of check- T ing allenation. MISSING BOY OF THREE FOUND IN swm] Picked np Half Frozen by Trooper Not Far From His Home in Cardift, N. J. Cardiff, N. J., Dec. 20 UP—Threc year old James Branco, missing for twenty-two hours, was found yester- day n a swamp thicket, not 400 vards from his home, by Trooper ‘amp just bayond the point where two bloodhounds had repeatedly lost the scent. The child was semi-con- | cious, blue-tipped and unable to ! move his frozen hands and feet. | The trooper, who came: with others from the Absecon barracks, blew his whistle as soon as he stum- | bled across the boy. Farmers who ! had " been beating the brush and | swampland all night in a forty-mile | wind came on the run. They carried the boy to his home. There the boy's mother, Mrs. Jennis Branco, years old, tried to tear “Jimmie" | from the troopers who were doing | their hest to revive him. The father | Charles, 32, called in from the' search, collapsed when he léarned that his son had been found. | Jimmie was revived by hot soup | and the application of fce to his | legs, i |Sign B;;s Smoking In 59 Languages Las Cruces, N. M., Dec. 20. (P— Alovg the southern border of New Mexico everybody speaks two or thres languages and more than a | scora of natlonalities are represented | in the population. fires have been so destructi to cot- 1 bales and ginning mills that o Smoking” signs have been post- | 4 in a multitude of languages In one town a ginning mill dis- tongues, in- | cluding Polish, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Swedish, Hebrew, Portu- guese, Danish, Turkish and German. And after these admonitions Is the MOTHER IN MIDAIR “We” to Escort Mrs, Lindbergh to Mexico Gity 20 (P—\When Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, now en route re by plane, a proaches the capifal, a silver win monoplane will appear from the south, the Spirit of St. Lonis, piloted by her famous son, flying to escort her to Mexico ¢ Lindbergl, fly trom Valbuena, field to meet his mother, pected Wednesday or Thursday. said he did not i north as Ta Asked if hi to the T'n her visit ended, he Mexico City, Dec. v aviation pico, mot tates by plane for Christr has not train, but air or by automobile since he out from San Diego last epring the flight that led to Paris. Traveled 40,000 Miles He has traveled more than 40, miles in the air, he said, and } d only in the 000 When he was his honor loating Garden Mexico City, it was by automobile. 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