Stevenson v. Belknap
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Jones District Court. This was an action by the plaintiff to recover damages for the seduction and debauching of his daughter, by defendant. Exception was taken on the trial to instructions given to the jury, by the court, at the request of the plaintiff, and to the refusal of the court to give certain instructions asked by defendant. The jury found for the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at $3,000. Defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the Jones District Court. This was an action by the plaintiff to recover damages for the seduction and debauching of his daughter, by defendant. Exception was taken on the trial to instructions given to the jury, by the court, at the request of the plaintiff, and to the refusal of the court to give certain instructions asked by defendant. The jury found for the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at $3,000. Defendant appeals. The instructions will be found sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. I. The old form of action, per quod sermtiwn amisit, was wholly technical in…
1Opinion of the CourtStockton, J.
— The questions arising under the first, second, third and fourth heads of the assignment of errors, have not been discussed by defendant, but have been abandoned by him. Our examination of the errors assigned, will be confined to those arising under the fifth and sixth specifications, and growing out of the instructions given and refused by the court.
At the request of the plaintiff, the court charged the jury, that “ if the daughter of the plaintiff was a minor, at the time of the seduction, alleged in the petition, and if she was seduced and debauched, as alleged, a right of action accrued…
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