Guadagno v. Folco

This is an action of trespass on the case for seduction of the plaintiff’s adult daughter. In the superior court a jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $3500 and thereafter the defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied by the trial justice. The case is before us upon the defendant’s exceptions to that ruling and to other rulings of the trial justice during the trial, and to portions of his charge to the jury.

The evidence for the plaintiff in general showed that his daughter had been performing certain housekeeping services for him and that a relationship of master and…