Shadix v. Brown

The first count of the complaint charges the seduction of plaintiff, “she being chaste at the time”; and the second count alleges that at the time of the seduction plaintiff was “then and there a chaste unmarried woman.”

We are not called upon to determine whether a previously unchaste woman can maintain this action (see Smith v. Milburn, 17 Iowa, 30; Gemmill v. Brown, 25 Ind. App. 6, 56 N. E. 691; Love v. Masoner, 6 Baxt. [Tenn.] 24, 32 Am. Rep. 522; note to Bradshaw v. Jones [Tenn.] 76 Am. St. Rep. 668, 669); but, conceding that previous chastity is required, it is enough if the woman,…