Dain v. . Wyckoff
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Supreme Court. Action for the seduction of the plaintiff’s daughter. She was indentured, at the age of fourteen, to serve the defendant until she should arrive at the age of eighteen. Within the first year of her service she was seduced by him, became pregnant, returned to her father’s house, and was delivered of a child.
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Appeal from the Supreme Court. Action for the seduction of the plaintiff’s daughter. She was indentured, at the age of fourteen, to serve the defendant until she should arrive at the age of eighteen. Within the first year of her service she was seduced by him, became pregnant, returned to her father’s house, and was delivered of a child. The plaintiff had a verdict and judgment, which having been affirmed at general term in the sixth district, the defendant appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Comstock, J.
When the case was here on a former occasion, the judgment in the plaintiff’s favor was reversed and a new trial granted, on the ground that he was not entitled to the services of his daughter at the time of the' injury complained of. (3 Sold., 191.) It appeared that she was in the service of the defendant, and bound to him as an apprentice, when the seduction took place. In disposing of the case upon that ground, it was remarked by the judge who gave the opinion, that, “ unless the defendant procured the daughter to enter into his service, with a view to her…
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