Hay v. Graham
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. Manate Graham against William Hay. This was an action on the case in which the plaintiff declared in two counts: first, for seducing the plaintiff and getting her with child; second, for a breach of promise of marriage: upon which the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for $950 damages. The court below was of opinion that >the first count in the declaration was bad, and rendered a judgment on the second count.
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ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. Manate Graham against William Hay. This was an action on the case in which the plaintiff declared in two counts: first, for seducing the plaintiff and getting her with child; second, for a breach of promise of marriage: upon which the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for $950 damages. The court below was of opinion that >the first count in the declaration was bad, and rendered a judgment on the second count. The other points of the case appear sufficiently in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The declaration of the plaintiff contains two counts, the first for seducing and getting her with child, and the second for a breach of a promise of marriage alleged to have been made to her. The only plea put in by the defendant below, who is the plaintiff in error, was not guilty. On the trial of the cause, evidence was given showing that the plaintiff below had given birth to a child, and some slight evidence also tending to prove that the defendant had admitted the child to be his. This evidence, however, as was alleged on the part of…
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