Fletcher v. Randall

It has been determined, that where there is evidence, that the parent must have known that the course of conduct allowed by him, between the defendant and his daughter, would inevitably terminate in seduction, he shall not be entitled to damages for" such seduction. Where the conduct of the daughter has been lewd, there the plaintiff is entitled only to a strict recompense for the loss of her service during pregnancy.(1)

This point is fully supported by the case of Akerly v. Haines, 2 Caines, 292. In that case, the defendant’s counsel contended, that the lewdness of the daughter, previous to…