Mosley v. Lynn

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The judgment of the court below is erroneous, in that it entirely confuses seduction as a tort, for which damages may be recovered in a proper action, with seduction as a crime, with sentence imposed for the commission of such crime. The definition laid down in the Penal Code, § 378, which imposes a penalty of from one to twenty-years for the offense therein defined, has nothing whatever to do with the seduction of a female child as the basis of an action for damages on the part of the mother under the provisions of the Civil Code, § 4466. It must be borne…