£1000 DAMAGES
THE MASTER-TON SEDUCTION CASE. (B.v "TeleErnDh—SDeoial CorresHondent.V Masterton, September 12. The case in which John Cross, a,farmer, claimed from Alexander Colquhoun, a. farmer, tho sum of XiOOO lor the seduction of plaintiff's daughter, occupied the Supreme Court all to-day. The defenco was an emphatic denial of auy intimacy. Counsel for the plaintiff commented in scathing terms: upon the conduct of defendant in riving a young girl .£75 in order to enabS her to proceed to Sydney, and then allowing her with her infant to. remain penniless and homeless in a strange city. ■. The Chief Justice summed up strongly, in favour- of the plaintiff. The jury,.'after -a short retirement, * returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and awarded .£101)0 damages. A nonsuit point' raised by Mr. Wilford that there was insufficient corroborative Evidence of' plaintiff's story, was reserved for argument in Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3189, 13 September 1917, Page 4
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