Hurst v. Wagner

The plaintiff sued the defendant, administrator of the estate of C. Hardin Hurst, for money necessarily spent in the care and maintenance of her illegitimate child, the defendant’s intestate being its putative father. Previous to suit, her claim had been filed with, and rejected by, the defendant.

In the complaint, plaintiff alleged that she

“. . . and said C. Hardin Hurst, now deceased, cohabited together, commencing in the year 1924, and lived together and cohabited as man and wife openly and notoriously, from the month of April, 1925, until September, 1926, in various places in the United…