State v. Swafford

I. On the twenty-first day of March, 1894, Maud M. Bane filed her petition in the district court of Johnson county against T. E. Murphy, stating as her cause of action as follows: “ That heretofore, to-wit, on and before the first day of September, 1893,. she was an unmarried woman, of previously chaste character, a resident of Penn township, in Johnson county, Iowa, and of the age of majority; that on or about said first day of September, 1893* the defendant, for the purpose of injuring and destroying plaintiff’s good name, happiness, and future comfort, did seduce and debauch the plaintiff,…