Kujek v. . Goldman
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from judgment of the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of New York, entered upon an order made June 4, 1894, affirming a judgment of the General Term of the City Court of New York, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict.
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Appeal, by permission, from judgment of the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of New York, entered upon an order made June 4, 1894, affirming a judgment of the General Term of the City Court of New York, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. Prior to January 17th, 1891, the defendant Katie Kujek, then named Katie Moritz, was an unmarried woman employed as a domestic in the family of the defendant Goldman, by whom she had become pregnant. Upon discovering the fact, the defendants, as it is alleged in the complaint, conspired to…
1Opinion of the CourtYAxic, J.
The verdict of the jury has established as the facts of this case, beyond our power to review, that the plaintiff married Katie Moritz in the belief that she was a virtuous girl, induced by the representations of the defendant to that effect, when, in fact, she Avas at the time pregnant by the defendant himself. The case was submitted to the jury upon the theory that if Goldman, knoAving that Katie was unchaste, by false representations that she was virtuous induced the plaintiff to marry her, he was entitled to recover damages, and the jury found a verdict in his favor for $2,000. While no…
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