Moran v. Dawes
New York Supreme Court
.Case for seducing and debauching Jane Moran, the daughter and servant of the plaintiff, per quod scrvitium amisit; tried before Edwards, C. Judge, at the New York circuit, January 12th, 182b. On the trial, Jane Moran, a witness for the plaintiff, testified that she was the daughter of the plaintiff, and at the time of the connection- between her and the defendant, she was over the age of 21 years.
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.Case for seducing and debauching Jane Moran, the daughter and servant of the plaintiff, per quod scrvitium amisit; tried before Edwards, C. Judge, at the New York circuit, January 12th, 182b. On the trial, Jane Moran, a witness for the plaintiff, testified that she was the daughter of the plaintiff, and at the time of the connection- between her and the defendant, she was over the age of 21 years. That she then lived with her mother in Rector street, in the city of New York, in a house owned by her brother; that her brother, mother and sister, also resided there; that her mother was the…
1Opinion of the Court
Curia.
The relation of mistress and servant, between the plaintiff and her daughter, was sufficiently made out at the trial. The slightest acts of service are sufficient, as merely milking cows. (Bennet v. Allcott, 2 T. R. 168.) So it is said making tea for, or attention to the plaintiff, during sickness. (2 Phil. Ev. 157.) Mr. Philips very judiciously remarks, that otherwise- the action might be confined to families in the lower ranks of life, where the daughter is literally a servant; and could never be extended to the higher order, where it is generally more wanted ; and where the injury is…
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