Austin v. Barker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Frank Barker, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Oneida on the 30th day of March, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of April, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, J.:
This action was brought by plaintiff to recover damages claimed to have been, suffered by reason of the seduction of his daughter, Edith Austin, by the defendant.
Plaintiff with his family, including said daughter, and the defendant resided upon nearby 'farms in' one of the towns" of O.nei'da county. The daughter and the defendant had been schoolmates and. acquaintances for many years. In August, 1901, the daughter, being unmarried, gave birth to a child of full development. She was at that time about twenty-two years of age and the defendant was of about the same age. It was…
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