People ex rel. Kenfield v. Lyon
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of sessions, Ontario county. Bastardy proceeding on the relation of J. Tuttle Kenfield, over-seer of the .poor, against Frank E. Lyon. From a judgment affirming an order of filiation, made by two justices of the peace in ■the town of Naples, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.
The defendant, a horseshoer by trade, took up ■the business of administering “massage,” and, under the title of Prof. Lyon, traveled from place to place in the region of Elmira and Canandaigua, holding himself out as a practitioner of the art which goes by that name. The mother of the bastard child, an unmarried •woman of 33 years of age, who had been an invalid since she was .20, submitted herself to his treatment,—at first at her home in Naples, *943and afterwards at a hotel in Canandaigua. At the latter place, as she testifies, the defendant on three or four occasions in the fall of 1892 and…
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