Taylor v. Rann

HONORABLE CHARLES B. ELWELL, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE STEWART, disqualified, delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was brought by the plaintiff, Bessie Taylor, against the defendant, Clyde W. Rann, to recover damages, actual and punitive, on account of an alleged seduction of the plaintiff by the defendant, and resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff for both actual and punitive damages.

The evidence of the plaintiff disclosed that the plaintiff was the niece of the defendant’s wife; that the defendant and the aunt of plaintiff had married in…