Whittem v. State

There was pending in the Jefferson Circuit Court, at the October term, 1871, an action wherein Emily I. Risk, by her next friend, Emeline Risk, was plaintiff) and the appellant was defendant, in which the plaintiff sought to *198recover damages for her alleged seduction by the defendant in that action, and the appellant in this appeal. On the- 26th day of October, 1871, that being the 10th judicial day of said term, the attorneys for the plaintiff verbally alleged, in open court, that they were credibly informed that the plaintiff, Emily I. Risk had been abducted by the defendant, and informed…