Tongue v. Perrigo

This is an action for damages brought by the father of a minor child for seduction resulting in an infection which caused death. At the close of plaintiff’s testimony, the court sustained defendant’s motion to discharge the jury and dismiss the cause. The plaintiff appeals.

*565The record presents two questions for our consideration. The first is the sufficiency of the evidence to establish defendant’s sexual relations with plaintiff’s daughter, the infection as a result thereof, and that said infection communicated by defendant was the cause of his daughter’s death. The second relates to the…