“BLACKMAIL RACKET”
VETO ON DAMAGES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEWYORK, March 29. Governor Lehman has signed a Bill outlawing so-called “ hearthalm ” suit* in the New York State courts. Damages in actions for alienation of affections, breach of promise, seduction, and criminal conversation are now illegal. The Bill is similar to one recently passed in Indiana, Others are (lending in many other States to curb the “ blackmail racket,’’- . ‘
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Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 8
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