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Felt v. Amidon

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided August 15, 1877PublishedCited by 12 opinions

APPEAL from tbe County Court of Dodge County. This action was brought to recover damages for the alleged enticing by the defendants of the unmarried minor daughter and servant of the plaintiff from his residence in Eubicon, Dodge county.

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APPEAL from tbe County Court of Dodge County. This action was brought to recover damages for the alleged enticing by the defendants of the unmarried minor daughter and servant of the plaintiff from his residence in Eubicon, Dodge county. The complaint alleges that the defendants, pursuant to a common design and agreement between them, had illicit carnal intercourse with the plaintiff’s said daughter, and, by means of the influence 'which they thus acquired over her, enticed her from her home without the privity or knowledge of the plaintiff, and carried her to Milwaukee, where they placed her…

1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.

On the trial of the action, the learned county judge admitted testimony on behalf of the plaintiff to the effect that the plaintiff’s daughter expressed a desire, on different days and at different times after the two defendants left her in Milwaukee, to return to her home, and that at such times she wept. Testimony as to what she said and did in the presence of the two defendants at the house to which they took her, was also admitted on behalf of the plaintiff; but testimony of her statements at the hotel, made to a witness during the afternoon of the same day, was offered by the defendants…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sorenson v. DundasWisconsin Supreme Court · 1877

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Alsever v. Minneapolis & St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1902
  2. Hooker v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
  3. Stevens v. CastelMichigan Supreme Court · 1886
  4. Smith v. WagamanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882
  5. Garske v. Town of RidgevilleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1905

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