Harty v. Malloy
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bastardy complaint, brought originally before a justice of the peace in the town of New Haven, by whom the defendant was bound over to the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven County, and tried to the jury, before Hotchkiss, J.; verdict of guilty and judgment for the plaintiff to recover the sum of $171.75, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The ease is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Bastardy complaint, brought originally before a justice of the peace in the town of New Haven, by whom the defendant was bound over to the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven County, and tried to the jury, before Hotchkiss, J.; verdict of guilty and judgment for the plaintiff to recover the sum of $171.75, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The ease is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The court erred in admitting testimony concerning the improper relations between the parties in January and February, 1894. These relations were not…
1Opinion of the CourtFenn, J.
This is a bastardy proceeding brought by the mother, and tried to the jury in the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven county. The plaintiff obtained a verdict in her behalf, and judgment was rendered thereon by the court. The errors assigned upon appeal relate largely to the action of the court in relation to the admission of evidence. These we will first consider.
Upon the trial it was admitted that the defendant, at the time of the occurrence mentioned in the complaint, 'was a minor just under the age of sixteen years, and resided with his parents in West Haven in the town of Orange; that…
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