Mussivand v. David

This case comes to us on a dismissal of a complaint for failure to state a cause of action. The complaint basically states that appellee contracted a venereal disease due to the acts of the appellant. Therefore we do not know whether the venereal disease was gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, venereal warts or some other sexually transmitted disease. Hence a brief discussion of sexually transmitted diseases is necessary.

A “venereal disease” is defined as “a contagious disease, most commonly acquired in sexual intercourse or other genital contact; the venereal diseases include syphilis,…