Blossom v. . Barrett

This action was brought to recover damages of the defendant for fraudulently inducing the plaintiff to marry the defendant, and to cohabit with him, he having another wife living from whom he was not lawfully divorced, and the defendant being at the time incapacitated to marry any one while his prior wife was living. The cause was tried at the Schuyler Circuit, and the plaintiff recovered a verdict of $9,000. There was also a count in the complaint for assault and battery. The case was abundantly proved upon the evidence.

There was no pretense but that the defendant was married to Cornelia…