Verwers v. Carpenter

The original petition charged a cause of action for seduction, alleging that in September, 1909, the defendant, by artifice and deceit and promise of marriage, seduced the plaintiff. Defendant answered by general denial, and the cause went to trial upon the issues so tendered.

During the cross-examination of plaintiff she stated that the intercourse was accomplished by force. Whereupon defendant moved to exclude all of her evidence because incompe*275tent, irrelevant, and immaterial, and for tbe further reason that her testimony- shows, without any controversy, that she submitted to the defendant,…