Leloup v. Eschausse

McAdam, Ch. J.

The ruling in Knight v. Wilcox (14 N. Y. 413), that in cases of seduction not followed by pregnancy no action will lie, has not been well received nor has it been literally followed in this State. In White v. Nellis (31 N. Y. 405) a recovery was had in a case where the defendant seduced the plaintiff’s servant, and communicated to her a venereal disease. That pregnancy is not essential to maintain the action is demonstrated by the fact that if a debased woman lures to her vile embrace an innocent boy, and infects him with a loathsome disease, she is equally liable to this action…