Town of Hamden v. Collins
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, Wolfe, J., abating and dismissing a bastardy complaint for alleged illegal and insufficient service of the writ and process. This bastardy complaint against the defendant, who is therein described as, and who in fact was, a resident of New Haven, was brought to the Town Court of the plaintiff town.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, Wolfe, J., abating and dismissing a bastardy complaint for alleged illegal and insufficient service of the writ and process. This bastardy complaint against the defendant, who is therein described as, and who in fact was, a resident of New Haven, was brought to the Town Court of the plaintiff town. The statutory warrant was thereupon issued directed to the sheriff of the county, his deputy, or either of the constables of Hamden, and to one Webster, an indifferent person. This process was delivered to Webster to serve as…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
It has long been the settled law of this State that our statutory bastardy proceedings are civil and not criminal in their nature, and that the general rules respecting civil cases are applicable to them. Hinman v. Taylor, 2 Conn. 357, 360; Naugatuck v. Smith, 53 Conn. 523, 525, 3 Atl. 550; Hamden v. Merwin, 54 Conn. 418, 425, 8 Atl. 670; Van Epps v. Redfield, 68 Conn. 39, 47, 35 Atl. 809. Section 568 of the General Statutes, expressly and in unmistakable language, provides that no process in civil actions shall be directed to an indifferent person except under conditions not present in this…
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