Fries v. Brugler
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Warren to reverse a judgment rendered in an action of trespass on the case, brought by Brugler the defendant in error against Fries the plaintiff in error, for the seduction of his daughter.
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This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Warren to reverse a judgment rendered in an action of trespass on the case, brought by Brugler the defendant in error against Fries the plaintiff in error, for the seduction of his daughter. One of the errors assigned by the plaintiff in error, and relied upon for the reversal of this judgment, was, “ that the Court of Common Pleas overruled and rejected the following question proposed by the counsel for the said Jacob Fries, on the cross-examination, to Hannah Brugler, a witness on the trial of the said cause, on the part…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Justice
delivered the opinion of the court.
James Brugler sued Fries in the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Warren, for the seduction of his daughter per quod servitium amisit. On the trial, the daughter was examined as a witness by her father, the plaintiff; she testified to her seduction by the defendant, and that he was the father of her child. She underwent a minute cross-examination respecting the circumstances of the charge, and disclosed a course of conduct in the visits of the defendant and her intercourse with him, greatly to her shame. She acknowledged the visits of…
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