Cook v. Bartlett
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort to recover for loss of services of Lilla B. Cook, the plaintiff’s adopted daughter, by reason of her alleged seduction by the defendant.
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Tort to recover for loss of services of Lilla B. Cook, the plaintiff’s adopted daughter, by reason of her alleged seduction by the defendant. Writ dated July 14, 1900. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., the defendant asked for the following instructions: 1. Upon all the evidence the plaintiff is not entitled to recover. 2. The plaintiff cannot recover unless physical injury causing impairment of health and consequent inability to render service was the proximate result of the defendant’s act. 3. The plaintiff cannot recover for loss of services resulting from mental…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowltok, J.
The defendant’s first contention is that there was error in permitting the jury to find on the evidence that Lilla B. Cook was legally adopted as the plaintiff’s daughter tinder the laws of Vermont, where the parties resided at the time of the adoption. Under the law of that State the instrument signed and. sealed by the adopting parents, and by a parent, guardian or representative of the child, must be acknowledged before the judge of probate of the district where it is to be filed. The certified copy of the record shows that the proceedings followed the statute exactly, unless the…
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