Stone v. Bang

Appellee brought this action in the circuit court of Jackson county against the appellant, under section 720, Code of 1906 (section 514, Hemingway’s 1927 Code), to recover damages for the alleged seduction by appellant of appellee’s minor daughter, Lillie. There was a trial, resulting in'a verdict and judgment in appellee’s favor for the sum of two thousand dollars, from which judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The statute upon which the action is based, above referred to, is in this language: “A father or mother may bring an action for the seduction of a daughter, although such…