Armstrong v. Lester
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Warren Circuit Cou/rt. Action at law upon an instrument in writing of wbicb the following is a copy: “Indianola, Iowa, June 9,1874. One day after date I promise to pay Eussell Armstrong for the use of Isabel Nicholson or the child with which she is now pregnant, and of which the principal hereof is the father, and to them or either of them alone, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500), at the rate of ten per cent per annum, after installments due, for value…
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Appeal from Warren Circuit Cou/rt. Action at law upon an instrument in writing of wbicb the following is a copy: “Indianola, Iowa, June 9,1874. One day after date I promise to pay Eussell Armstrong for the use of Isabel Nicholson or the child with which she is now pregnant, and of which the principal hereof is the father, and to them or either of them alone, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500), at the rate of ten per cent per annum, after installments due, for value received, to be paid as follows, to-wit: In installments of fifty dollars ($50.00) each and every six months from the date…
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, . J.
The defendant had been arrested and, upon a preliminary examination before a magistrate, held to bail to answer for the crime of seducing Isabel Nicholson, an unmarried woman who was enceinte at the time by him. At the close of the examination, after he had been required to give bail, he proposed to the woman to marry her. Her friends, it appears, interposed objections to the marriage on the ground that it was proposed by him for the purpose of escaping from the punishment for his crime and not in good faith; that after the marriage, which would bar further prosecution (Code, 8668),…
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