McKern v. Calvert

This is an action for seduction of the plaintiff’s daughter. The verdict of the jury for the plaintiff was reduced by a remittitur to $500. The instructions, given on the trial, are correct; but some points are made in regard to the evidence which perhaps deserve notice.

On the cross-examination of the plaintiff’s daughter, she was asked in regard to a statement made by her at Middle-bury before the Lodge, which she referred to in her examination-in-chief; whether she had not, in such statement, in the presence of certain persons named, declared that she had had *244no intercourse with any other…