Hudkins v. Haskins
West Virginia Supreme Court
Woods, Jud&e, furnishes the following statement of the case: William Hudkins on the 30th day of August, 1880, brought his action on the case in the circuit court of Brax-ton county against. Bobert J. Iiaskins, for one thousand dollars damages for the seduction of the plaintiff’s daughter and servant, Eliza L. Iiudkins.
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Woods, Jud&e, furnishes the following statement of the case: William Hudkins on the 30th day of August, 1880, brought his action on the case in the circuit court of Brax-ton county against. Bobert J. Iiaskins, for one thousand dollars damages for the seduction of the plaintiff’s daughter and servant, Eliza L. Iiudkins. Process was issued returnable 'to October imles, 1880, and the sheriff on the same day returned, the same “Executed on the within named R. J. Haskins by delivering an office copy hereof to Robert L. Haskins, a person above the age of sixteen years and a member of the family…
1Opinion of the Court
Woods, Judge:
It is insisted by the'plaintiff in error that the circuit court erred in overruling his motion to quash the attachment_ and in overruling his motion to set aside the verdict and grant him a new trial, because as he alleged the verdict was contrary to the law and unsupported by the evidence. The proceeding by attachment against the estate of a defendant is purely statutory, exceedingly harsh in its operation, and liable to great abuse, and being unknown to the common law, is to be confined within its statutory limitations, and subject to all of its restrictions. The order of…
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