Furman v. Sise
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover damages for the seduction of plaintiff’s daughter by defendant. At the time of the seduction the daughter was eighteen years old and was in the employ of defendant’s father; her father was dead.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover damages for the seduction of plaintiff’s daughter by defendant. At the time of the seduction the daughter was eighteen years old and was in the employ of defendant’s father; her father was dead. The agreement under which she was working was made between plaintiff and the employer. Under the agreement the wages were to. he and were paid to the daughter. The daughter became pregnant.…
1DissentAllen, J.
The appellant presents but a single question for the judgment of this court, and that is upon the right of the plaintiff to maintain the action. The action itself is an anomaly in many of its aspects, and, if a wise public policy demands its preservation, discreet legislation could do much by so limiting and regulating it as to make the real purpose and object more consistent with the technical *441ground upon which it rests, and upon which alone it can he sustained, and declaring by whom, and under what circumstances, it may be brought.
In maintaining the action, the relation of parent and child…
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- Hewit v. PrimeNew York Supreme Court · 1839
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- People v. RichardsonNew York Supreme Court · 1825
- Whipple v. DowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1807
- Commonwealth v. MurraySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1812
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