Crose v. Rutledge
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, by Andrew S. Rutledge, against Philip Crose, for the seduction of the plaintiff’s wife. On the trial, the defendant offered in evidence the record of a divorce between the plaintiff and his wife, granted to the wife on cross-bill, for desertion by the plaintiff.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, by Andrew S. Rutledge, against Philip Crose, for the seduction of the plaintiff’s wife. On the trial, the defendant offered in evidence the record of a divorce between the plaintiff and his wife, granted to the wife on cross-bill, for desertion by the plaintiff. The court admitted the same, but instructed the jury that if the defendant was guilty of the criminal conversation, they could only consider the decree of divorce in mitigation of damages. The proof also…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was case, in the McLean circuit court, by Andrew S. Butledge, and against Philip Grose, defendant, for the seduction of the wife of the plaintiff, resulting in a verdict for plaintiff for fifteen hundred dollars as damages.
A motion for a new trial was overruled, and judgment rendered on the verdict, to reverse which the defendant prosecutes this writ of errror, assigning various errors.
Without remarking upon all the errors assigned, it is sufficient, for this case, to say, the court erred in permitting the plaintiff, on the trial below, to give in evidence the general character of the…
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