Drowne v. Stimpson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of error brought upon a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for this county, rendered upon the following complaint, viz.: — “ York, ss., April Term, 1805. “ Be it remembered that, on the 4th Monday of April, A. D. 1805, personally came before the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, begun and held at York, in and for the county of York, Lydia Stimpson, of Lyman, in said county, single woman, and complains against James Drowne, of said Lyman, husbandman,…
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This was a writ of error brought upon a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for this county, rendered upon the following complaint, viz.: — “ York, ss., April Term, 1805. “ Be it remembered that, on the 4th Monday of April, A. D. 1805, personally came before the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, begun and held at York, in and for the county of York, Lydia Stimpson, of Lyman, in said county, single woman, and complains against James Drowne, of said Lyman, husbandman, and informs the Court that she, the said Lydia, on the 28th day of July past, was delivered of a bastard child ; and that…
1Opinion of the Court
And now, at this term, the opinion of the Court was delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
The complaint, in the case which is brought before the Court by this writ of error, is given by the statute passed March 16, 1786, entitled, “ An Act for the' punishment of fornication, and for the maintenance of bastard children,” and, to support the proceedings, the statute must be substantially pursued. To entitle the complainant to an adjudication, the statute requires that she charge the defendant with being the father in her travail, and that she afterwards continue constant in her accusation, (a) It appears…
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