Steinberg v. Lasker

— The plaintiff sues for the seduction of his daughter and obtains an order of arrest.

The defendant moves to vacate the order of arrest on the ground that it is not one of the cases for which the Code provides that a defendant may be arrested.

The defendant claims that the basis of the father’s action is for the loss of his daughter’s service by reason of her pregnancy and confinement. It is true, that at an early period this form of action was devised to give the father a remedy against the seducer of his daughter, as the jury had the right to give damages in excess of the pecuniary loss of…