Boyd v. Byrd

This was an action for the seduction of the daughter and servant of the plaintiff, per quod, &c. Plea not guilty. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.

The Court instructed the jury that the defendant was liable in this action, if he seduced the daughter of the plaintiff while she was under twenty-one years of age, though she was residing with the defendant at the time, and though she had, one year previously, left her father’s house with no intention of returning, with his consent to her departure, and his license that she might appropriate her time and services to her own use.

The…