Hagaman v. Stafford

Action on the case by a father for the seduction of his daughter, whereby he lost her service. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, the daughter was introduced as a witness on behalf of the plaintiff, and stated in her evidence that the *352child she had borne was begotten by the defendant at her father’s in Greene county. In order to discredit her testimony, the defendant offered in evidence a paper, purporting to be an affidavit made by the witness before a justice of the peace of Greene county in a case of bastardy, in which it is said that she then swore, that the defendant was the father of the…