Hoogland v. Hudson

S. B. Strong, Justice.

This is not an action against the putative father for the support or sustenance of his bastard child, which could be maintained under the 51st section of title 6, of the 20th chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, by the overseers of the poor. It has been instituted against *344the alleged father and his sureties, on a bond executed by them upon an order of filiation, made by two justices, and must be sustained by that, if at all

The bond is set forth in the complaint, and literally it has two conditions; first, that the defendant, Hudson, the alleged father of…