Ferguson v. Stewart

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The action was one for damages for the seduction of plaintiff’s daughter. Plaintiff prevailed and the defendant appeals.

Sarah, the plaintiff’s daughter, was twenty years of age at the time of the alleged happenings. The defendant, Doctor Stewart, residing and practicing medicine at Atchison, was forty-four, married, and living with his wife. Sarah had come to Atchison about 1919 to attend school. She lived with other families for two years while attending school, afterwards working as a domestic for two years, and was so working at the time…