Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-24
MEIER vs.. CASEY.
The Defendant Makes Sweeping Denia
on all the Charges.

on all the Charges.
On Wednesday last the RECORD UNION
published the complaint filed in the Su-
perior Court by Helena Meier in which she
charged Hugh Casey with seduction and
| asked damages in the sum of $50, 900. Her
attorneys are ]. C. Ball of Woodland and
Beattie, benson and Oatman of this city.
Yesterday, Casey by his attorneys, A. L.
Hart and Grove L. Johnson, filed his an
swer TO the complaint as follows:
Defendant denies that the plaintiff,
Helena Meier, is minor, or that said Ag-
| mes Bemerly was on the day of Deem
Der, 1887, or at any other time by the
| order of Hon. John W. Armstrong, one of
the Judges of this Court, duly made, con-
stituted or appointed, or that she is now
the duly appointed or qualified guardian
dd Item of or for said plaintiff De-
PENDANT AYERS that he has no information
or belief sufficient to enable him to an
swer the allegation of said complaint.
that this plaintiff, Helena Meier, is and
has always been an unmarried female"
and therefore, and upon that ground, de-
PENDANT denies that the said plaintiff is or
always has been an unmarried female
| Upon his Information and belief, denies
| that the said plaintiff up TO the time of
the alleged wrongs set forth in said com
plant, was or has been chaste or yirtuous.
Denies that on or about the - day of Au-
! gust, 1887, or at any other time, while
plaintiff was in the employment of de-
tendant as a domestic servant, or other
wise, in plaintiffs household or
elsewhere, be, the plaintiff, with force
and violence, or in any manner
whatsoever, or at all, made an indecent.
or any assault upon plaintiff, either at his
residence in the city of Sacramento. or
elsewhere; denies that said defendant then
or there, or at any time or place what
soeyer, by force or threats, or persuasion.
or undue influence or otherwise, or at all,
seduced, or debauched, or carnaily knew
the plaintiff, against her desire or protesta-
ton, or otherwise, or at all and denies
that he ever, at any time or place whatso-
ever, or IN any manner whatsoever. Sc
duced debauched, or carnally knew the
said plaintiff denies that by reason of any
of the acts alleged in said complaint. or by
reason of any act or acts of the defendant |
the plaintiff ever became sick, or remained
so for any space of time whatsoever; denies |
that by reason of the premises alleged in |
SAID complaint, or by or on account of any |
other reason, or in consequence of the al |
legged wrongs and seduction set out IN said |
complaint, or in consequence of any act or !
acts OF the defendant herein, the said |
plaintiff has suffered greatly, or at all in |
health. or otherwise; denies that in conse- |
quence OF any of the acts set out in the said |
complaint, or of any act or acts or conduct |
OF the defendant the said plaintiff became |
sick, or has suffered great or any mental |
or other agony or distress denies that at |
any OF the times mentioned in the COM |
plant, or at any time whatsoever the said |
plaintiff has been prevented from attending |
to her ordinary or other business or affairs. |
or that she was or ever has been, greatly or |
otherwise, afflicted in body or in mind: |
denies that by reason of or in consequence |
OF any act, acts or conduct of the defendant
the plaintiff has been put to great or any
expense for medical or other attendance or
for nursing, and denies that said plaintiff |
by reason of any of the acts set out in the
said complaint, or by reason of any act or
acts of the defendant, has beer injured in
any manner, or to any extent whatsoever;
denies that by reason or in consequence of
any of the acts or facts alleged in said COM
plant the plaintiff has been damaged in
any sum whatsoever.
And defendant further denies that he ever
debaucAed, seduced or carnally knew the
said plaintiff, either as alleged in said COM
plant or otherwise, and denies that by
reason OF any act or conduct of his the said
plaintiff has been damaged in any sum
whatsoever
Wherefore, the defendant prays that the
plaintiff take nothing by reason of this ac
ton, and that defendant have and recover
Judgment for his costs herein.