Dean v. State ex rel. Marrical

Gregory, G. J.

On the 8th of November, 1865, the relatrix commenced an action before a justice of the peace against the appellant for bastardy, charging that she had been delivered of a bastard child, and that the defendant was the father of it. The defendant answered in the court below in three paragraphs. To the third a demurrer was sustained. That paragraph sets up that the relatrix, after the birth of the child, lived and cohabited with her husband; that the defendant agreed with the husband and wife to compromise the said cause of action, by paying them twenty-five dollars in meat and…