Litton v. Woliver
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lee county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. This is an action by a father, the defendant in error, who was plaintiff in the trial court, against the plaintiff in error, who was defendant in the trial court, to recover $10,000' damages for the alleged seduction by the latter of the daughter of the plaintiff and for certain expenses of nursing, etc., alleged in the declaration.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lee county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. This is an action by a father, the defendant in error, who was plaintiff in the trial court, against the plaintiff in error, who was defendant in the trial court, to recover $10,000' damages for the alleged seduction by the latter of the daughter of the plaintiff and for certain expenses of nursing, etc., alleged in the declaration. The parties will be hereinafter referred to in accordance with their positions in the court below. The declaration is in…
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:
The single question we need to pass upon, among those raised by the assignments of error, is the following:
[1] 1. Was the trial court in error in instructing the jury that the plaintiff was entitled to recover, because of mere sexual intercourse of the defendant with his daugh*36ter, not accomplished by seduction under the promise of marriage or by other artifice, damages for wounded feelings and affections, etc., and punitive or exemplary damages, as set forth in the instructions above copied, in…
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- State v. WhalenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1896
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- Clem v. HolmesSupreme Court of Virginia · 1880
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