Thompson v. Howard

Graves, Ch. J.

The plaintiff sued the defendant in case to recover of him for having, as he alleged, enticed into his service and harbored his minor son, a young man about nineteen years of age. The evidence went to show that the parties having been near neighbors in Cooper, Kalamazoo county, the defendant removed to Missouri, and, without plaintiff’s knowledge or assent, and against his wishes and desire, persuaded and induced the young man to leave his father, the plaintiff, and go to defendant’s place in Missouri, and there work for the latter on his promise of wages; that the defendant,…