Lawyer v. Fritcher
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment entered, upon the verdict of a jury rendered at the Scbobarie Circuit, in tbe office of the clerk of Schoharie county on the 17th day of January, 1889, and, also, from an order made by the justice presiding at the trial denying a motion for a new trial, made upon the minutes of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
This action is brought by plaintiff to recover for loss of services on account of the alleged abduction and seduction of his daughter, Edith, in May, 1886. Defendant had at the time a wife living and could not marry. When he took Edith away defendant said : “ I *am just as clear from my wife as though T never had married her.” Plaintiff believed the statement and was induced thereby to sign a written consent to the marriage of his daughter with the defendant. Defendant took Edith from her father’s house on May 17, 1886, under the pretense that he would marry her, but as he was…
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