Hoyt v. Dewey
Supreme Court of Vermont
[ In Chancery. ] Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill alleged that on August 23, 1875, the defendants, combining and conspiring, &c., falsely and maliciously threatened to accuse the orator of an assault with intent to rape defendant Dewey, and to prosecute him therefor, defendants then and there intending to defraud the orator of his good name, and to extort money from him to the amount ot $10,000; that defendants, in furtherance of said conspiracy, then and there…
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[ In Chancery. ] Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill alleged that on August 23, 1875, the defendants, combining and conspiring, &c., falsely and maliciously threatened to accuse the orator of an assault with intent to rape defendant Dewey, and to prosecute him therefor, defendants then and there intending to defraud the orator of his good name, and to extort money from him to the amount ot $10,000; that defendants, in furtherance of said conspiracy, then and there extorted from the orator and procured him to pay to them the sum of $4,500 in money, and procured him to execute and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
The orator’s case, in brief statement, is, that he had long been on terms of neighborly intimacy with Mrs. Dewey, one of the defendants, for many years, and had on several occasions passed the boundaries of conventional propriety in language, if not in act, in familiar intercourse with her; that she made that the occasion for charging upon him an assault with intent to ravish, and exacting a large sum of money as compensation for such great wrong; and that in the dread of exposure and the exhibition of himself in a perverted light to his…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sartwell v. HortonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1856
3Cited by4 opinions
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