Goins v. Coulter

This is an action of damages for seduction and breach of promise of marriage. In aggravation of these combined charges it is charged that a child was horn as a result who will become a county charge unless the defendants are compelled to contribute to its support. The suit is against the heirs and administrator of the alleged seducer who died a few months before this action was begun.

The trial judge sustained defendants’ demurrer to the declaration because this is a suit “affecting the character of the plaintiff. ’ ’

The common-law rule as expressed in the maxim A ctio personalis moritur cum…