Boues v. Steffens
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Queens county. Action by Henry Bones against Aloys Steffens for enticing away and debauching plaintiff’s wife. Plaintiff’s wife was, before her marriage, the housekeeper of defendant, a Roman Catholic priest, and she thereafter, with plaintiff’s consent, remained in his service until he could provide a servant to take her place.
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Appeal from circuit court, Queens county. Action by Henry Bones against Aloys Steffens for enticing away and debauching plaintiff’s wife. Plaintiff’s wife was, before her marriage, the housekeeper of defendant, a Roman Catholic priest, and she thereafter, with plaintiff’s consent, remained in his service until he could provide a servant to take her place. She lived part of the time with her husband at home, and partly with him at defendant’s residence, and while at the latter place she slept apart from her husband. The plaintiff testified that while at defendant’s home he forced the door of…
1Opinion of the CourtPratt, J.
The verdict rendered by the jury finds some support in the testimony of the plaintiff, and it is probable that a nonsuit at close of plaintiff’s case would not have been sustainable. But the testimony was open to grave criticism, and had the cause been decided upon the plaintiff’s testimony simply, the jury might well have hesitated before basing upon it a verdict. The evidence introduced by defendant fully contradicted that of the plaintiff. The witnesses were numerous, and, with the exception of defendant and Mrs. Boues, were without interest in the result. Much of their evidence is not to…
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