The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-31 00:00:00

SEDUCTION—Mini:NT v. OLIVER A.

This was an action 6:might on 'faraday by the plaintiff,
a carpenter, resident at Chelsea, against the defendant
tur the seduction of the plaintiff's da:ignte r.
Mr. Ilolt opened the pleading. and Mr. Scarlett stated
the rase, which woe Wilily a.

The daughter of the plaintiff. a •c ry pretty young girl,
put an alive' Mimeo' into the yinor\rwapaper, fur a si-
tuation as Lady's-uodd. lite advertisement was answered
in a very shoot tiir.e by nide, debiting the advertiser to call
at the house of Mr. Olive•sw, near limsell hlllihre, where
she would hear of a place. going to the brume, she,
saw Mr. Olives a, who ►aid his sister wished to hire a girl
resembling her, and had roncluded, from the advertise-
:nem, that the young appliemit *mild suit her. He de-
bited her to call ag in, and be should let her know his
sister's tiptirtermination. The plaintiffs daughter was pule
Mal. Site saw the defendaut upon her second visit to the
hanse, but was told by him, that it bring his slates 'a in-
troika' to go abroad lie it pprelle•tialed the applicant's aver.
slots to leave this romitry(for the girl had expressed no-
willingness to leave her li lends at a great distance), would
prevent au event, which he vs as sett' deviroos of vs hover,-
lug, in conserpienee of the sleep inlet est he felt in the girl's
situation. He however, fur the purpose of making
amends for any diaapoointinent, wuntil look about fur a
place as acivantagtoi., as that abide his sister was shoot
to bare supplied, and timing the interval proposed to the
poor girl to take care of a home, Of which lie seas propi i-
v tor. She consmiti ri to take upon her this eliarge, and
was tell at the new habitation long, whets Mr. Oliv-era
called, and told her she was by no means to consider her-
self as prechided from looking out for • lam e suitable
place, by being rhea in his set v ice. 11. rept ats d to her,
that he fi It greatly lammed to serve hi r, and d .el,ire it,
after some conversation, that he• would tallier sea tier in
some profitable and respectable business than in nervier,
and would advance Vol. to her, tor the purpose of settle%
her up. Her e‘peel,ifj as VI roe raised to a high pitch by
those tine promises. The &feudal:l called an ein, and was
still more kind in his declarations of iiitesided beuefits.—
He took her to walk with him, cod constituted cer to a
lodise vs hick she found was laid out for evil purposes.
She expressed au witsimis wish to leave it, but lie prevail-
ed upon her to stay by his profi-a•iona if love and friend-
ship, and *swivelled in ate timid.' hing tier rain. She
became pregnant, .Pol Was liellVt red of a child, and had
tints returned to he•r bliht boner.

Thit was the acce ))))) t given by the plaintitTs daughter,
who had bees .td need. It ,11., given with gent coolne,s,
end it was cootie med in Hinge pares wile re the pi otestious
of the deteridani, eii.l his idler to advance 2001. were men-
tioned by the evidence oilier ouster.
Nit. seri-kit elated, that probably the defendant wou!ri
endeavour to get through the hustnesa by •Isewiag that the
Osi was in his sci tire, 4,:c1 out hi her father's at the lithe
Cl her Nedhrtian. The Joey were, howeter, to r onsider,
that ,hunch in point, ,rit. tact she on. in Isle servicet the
g trien'abiele.in Magi to Wed. 'her WO his pos.
Ili I

MAY $l.

stssioo,aod could suit therefore be made Eubservirot to
Isla views.

Mr. Gurney, for the defendant, said, the ulnae of a
girl alto had sr signed it %Oilman reluctance, and eren
gone into a brothel for the purpose of doing so, could not
he the property of t charm ter of mach value to her ti-
ther. He also stated that his client would shrink ftont the
idea of deliberately sedociag a girl, and übstt t e.l, that the
romiticiiig argument of his Luang lice fioen any
such vicious pro;!ensily, was, that he etas a most eacellent
husband and father.

The Chief Justice, in summing up, Paid, if the Jury
upiniou that the ',Mifflin's daughter had nut berm
bona fide hired. bat that the Intim: bad been a mere de-
ception upon the part of the tletentlititt,for the pitryti3e of
accomplishing those views in %Melt he had succeeded
they %vete bonito: tofind a verdict for the plaititilt.
The Jury tetururd a verdict for the p!aivaiti—Uaulages

RATERDAY. MAY ''9.
HEWITT V. GRAY A 111) OTHERS.

ni4 was an action to seesawe d competZtion in damages
analog the proprietors of" The 0,41 Original Windsor unit
Lon Sta,w Coach," for an iqiury sustained iu the overturn-
of owl coach.
Mr. Seyeelett and Mr. Coins n conducted the plaintiff's
case, mill Mr. Muroatt and Mr. W. Taunton the defee.-
data's. The case proved was this : —The plaintiff a 0 idow
lady, of moderate fortune, residing at W indoor-east le, M ing
iu Lonrho. in the mouth of August Met, teak au Onside place
in the defendants' coat 11, being nee 1111 l pamed by her man
servaut on the 'outside. The couch lett the hult-iso.l ton inn,
Fleet-street, about three o'clock iu the afternoon, on the 16th
August. It v laden very heavily 4111 t h.. uutside, and them
acre Ili cut.ide passengers, (nclading the coachman), and
six inside. The p servant sat ton the top of the lug-
gage, which wus 11111.111 1111 l 0111 y high. When the coach ar-
rised near Cranford-bridge, on its road to nun, the new
opposition coach appeared in sight, at nhout a !Modred
yards distance. the defendants' cwichn 1111 l , with a view to
pass the latter coach, drove ta the right hand side of the
road, in the centre of %%hid, was some gravel. lie was
&it ing at a moderate ;rice, but the coach being out of its
equilibrium, was °tenanted ; acid in cowequence of the
accident, the plaintiff's right wrist was broken, h. r elbow
disloented, her forehead rut to the bone, and she receised
several other severe injuries. She was afters aids put make
the care of Mr. John al'Queen„ of Et 1111 l who at tendad her
(or several months. She also had th. advice of Sir D Dundas,
and was swalequently obliged to come to LOlOlOlll fur the
white of Mr. C.incond took lodgings for last purpose. She
was now represented to be far (rain well, and had for some
purposes completely lost ti.e use of her eight arm. The
carnets she was wit to aas staled to be ups••rds of AO/.
Mr. alarryatt addressed the jury, on behalf of the d, f 0-
dents, in mitigation of damages, uttributin r the nosfoleuese
to mere kceideut, nod tint to any negligeace imputable to
the defendants' En:schema'',
The Lord Chief Justice oak', that th • defendants were
dead, liable, upon the bare statement That the coach hid
been overladen with luggage and passengers to a greater
amount titan the law authorized. The law allowed of only
outside passengers, and expressly forbade any person sit-
ting on the coy of the luggage. if the acrid, sot arose foam
ewe cows,. the pl,intill was entitled to damages She ap-
peared to have incurred n %esy consinerable pecuniary
expense for medical u,itdance but in addition to the
amount of that, she wo4 entitled to wan. thing for h. r per-
Foglial sufferings, and the loermanert i.jury *e se. wed likely
to have own:owed. The jury found fur the plaintiff--
Damages 5001.