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...melodrama was set in Burlington, N.C., a small town about 20 miles from Greensboro, where Dorothy Hutelmyer was twice president of the PTA, her husband Joseph coached baseball and ran Seaboard Underwriters, and Lynne Cox worked as his secretary. The Hutelmyers' was "a storybook marriage," says Dorothy's lawyer Jim Walker. "He wrote poetry to her, love songs...
...then, as a parade of witnesses testified, along came Lynne Cox, freshly divorced and newly reborn in makeup and contacts and short skirts. She was soon spending more time alone and on the road with her boss, and admits to having an affair with him. Thus were laid out the preconditions for an "alienation of affection" suit, a rare legal recourse for spurned spouses that only a handful of states still recognizes...
...order to prevail in court, a plaintiff needs to show that the marriage was perking along quite contentedly until a wanton intruder came along to wreck it. The complaint charges that Dorothy enjoyed the "love, society, companionship, support, affection, right of consortium and kindly offices" of Joseph until Cox "intentionally, wrongfully and unjustifiably and with malice alienated and destroyed a love and affection that previously existed...
...Cox, who is now Mrs. Hutelmyer herself--she married Joseph this year--says the jury merely chose to ignore her side of the story. She has never denied that she and Joseph had an affair; but the idea that he had been happily married before she came along is "ludicrous and absurd... The two of them had not had any physical relationship in over seven years. If my husband had not made love to me in seven years, I would think there was a problem...
...someone else to blame. It's no longer, 'The devil made me do it.' We can blame God for the dopamine in our brains!" IMOGENE COX Riceville, Tenn...