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.
1DissentLbauNbd, P. J.
The defendant, a married man over sixty years of age, took plaintiffs daughter Edith, about seventeen years old, from her father’s house on Monday, May seventeenth. He did this with the consent *592of the parents. But the verdict of the jury establishes that he obtained this consent by fraud. That night he stayed with her at a hotel and occupied the same bed with her, saying to the landlady that Edith was. his wife. The next day he arrived with her at his own house. They occupied the same bed and he made a similar statement, viz., that he had been manned to her the day before. When there Edith’s…
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