Pruitt v. Judge of the Co. Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Barbour. Tried before the Hon. Geo. Goldthwaite. * This was a proceeding by supersedeas to arrest and quash an execution, issued against the plaintiff in error on a bond executed by him in conformity to a judgment of condemnation rendered against him under the bastardy act.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Barbour. Tried before the Hon. Geo. Goldthwaite. * This was a proceeding by supersedeas to arrest and quash an execution, issued against the plaintiff in error on a bond executed by him in conformity to a judgment of condemnation rendered against him under the bastardy act. The facts on which the supersedeas was sued out and the grounds on which the motion to quash was made are sufficiently set out in the opinion for a full understanding of the poinls decided. The Circuit Court refused to quash the execution, and dismissed the supersedeas, and this is now…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
The Circuit Court dismissed the superse-deas, refused to' quash the execution, and gave judgment against the plaintiff in error for the costs, and these decisions of the court are now assigned for error. The plaintiff had been condemned under the bastardy act to pay fifty dollars a year for ten .years for the support of the child, and had given bond and sureties, payable to the judge of the County Court. The condemnation was rendered on the 9th August 1842, and the bond executed on the same day. It appears by the judgment of condemnation, that the child was then about six years *706old; that the…
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