[PW] 19th cent. court case?

[Sue Kamm]

Allen, I don't know what part of the world you're in, but if you have
access to a comprehensive law library (a law school, county law library),
their staff may be able to help.  I don't know if Lexis has digitized case
law back that far, but if I recall from my days as a law librarian (shortly
after the invention of moveable type <g>) there's a print source (decennial
digests?) that might have the information you're looking for.

HTH!

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> [Original Message]
> From: <AllenAmet at aol.com>
> To: <list at project-wombat.org>
> Date: 7/16/2008 2:01:11 PM
> Subject: [PW] 19th cent. court case?
>
> Hi,
>  
>   Does anyone on the List have access to that digitized database 
(Lexis?) of 
> old court cases?
>  
>   This one in question dates from 1875-1876, and occurred in New York 
State. 
> I think it was one of the first such cases filed by the Society for the  
> Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SPCC); it was listed, apparently, in
their  
> First Annual Report.
>  
>   It involved a child acrobat named "Prince Leo" and the case was 
prosecuted 
> by them against a trapeze artist named Walla Leonard (aka  Wallington 
> Husband). The child (7 years old?) had been performing at  the Tivoli
Theatre in NYC, 
> and there were complaints about the boy's  mistreatment (following an
earlier 
> 'Prince Leo' in Philadelphia). It would be  very helpful to see if the 
> Defendant's words were preserved in some way. There  was a 2001 article
on this 
> landmark case and it may have contained the case  citations ('New York's
1876 Act 
> to  Prevent and Punish Wrongs to Children').
>  
> Thanks.
>
> Allen
>  
>
>
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