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GASPER v. LIGHTHOUSE, INC.

No. 479, September Term, 1987.

73 Md. App. 367 (1987)

533 A.2d 1358

DANIEL GASPER v. LIGHTHOUSE, INC. ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied February 24, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Scarlett (Marr & Bennett, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Thomas J. Dolina (Power and Mosner, on the brief), Towson, for appellee, Donald A. Derby.

Mark A. Wesker (Mark D. Gately and Miles & Stockbridge, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee, Lighthouse, Inc.

Argued before WILNER, GARRITY and POLLITT, JJ.

WILNER, Judge.

Under Maryland common law, a man had a well-recognized property interest in both his wife and his marriage. If he was cuckolded, he had a civil action, known as criminal conversation, against the partner to his wife's adultery, in which he could recover damages for the injury to his feelings and his honor.1 Adultery — "defilement of the marriage bed" — was the gravamen of that action; no other injury to the...

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