Giese v. Schultz
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. The plaintiff had a verdict in her favor assessing her damages at $3,500, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtOetoit, J.
This is an action for breach of promise of marriage, in which damages are sought to be recovered, not merely for such breach, but for consequent seduction under and in faith of such marriage contract. In the complaint it is further alleged that the plaintiff was thereby gotten with child. It has been on this last branch of the case that the errors complained of mainly have been committed. On a former appeal to this court (53 Wis. 462) the judgment was reversed for almost precisely the same error in instructions to the jury committed at the last trial; or, more properly stated, the error of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- United Brethren Church v. VandusenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1875
- Giese v. SchultzWisconsin Supreme Court · 1881
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