Ingerson v. Miller
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury, The action was brought for loss of services, consequent upon the alleged seduction, by the defendant, of Mary Ingerson, the plaintiff’s minor daughter. The cause was tried at the. May Saratoga circuit, 1865, before Justice Jambs, and a jury.
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APPEAL from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury, The action was brought for loss of services, consequent upon the alleged seduction, by the defendant, of Mary Ingerson, the plaintiff’s minor daughter. The cause was tried at the. May Saratoga circuit, 1865, before Justice Jambs, and a jury. On the trial it appeared, that in May, 1864, the plaintiff’s daughter was pregnant, and at her own solicitation, was carried, in company with a female friend, by the defendant, to Saratoga Springs. The parties stopped at a public house, from whence the two females, alone, went to the office of a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Bockes, J.
The action is brought by a father for the seduction of his minor daughter.
- The daughter was seduced by the defendant, became pregnant, and died suddenly, about four months after conception. A post mortem examination disclosed a dead and putrefying foetus ; also a congested brain, caused as was supposed, by nervous, excitability or extreme mental agitation; or perhaps by both combined. At the time of the seduction, and until her decease, the daughter resided with her father, except when employed as a school teacher, under contract made with him for suck service. She…
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