Tillotson v. Martin
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from the judgment of the County Court of Madison ■county, affirming the judgment of a Justice’s Court for six dollars .and four cents damages and five dollars costs.
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Appeal from the judgment of the County Court of Madison ■county, affirming the judgment of a Justice’s Court for six dollars .and four cents damages and five dollars costs. November 24, 1884, E. B. Tillotson, an overseer of the poor of the town of Cazenovia, made a written complaint before G. H. Benjamin, a justice of the peace, requiring the justice to make inquiry into the facts and circumstances touching a bastard child born of Susan Robertson, chargeable to the county of Madison.” On the same day Susan Robertson, in her examination before such justice, made oath that “ she was delivered…
1Opinion of the Court
Hardin, P. J.:
Section 851 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, provides as follows : “ If the defendant be adjudged to be the father, he must immediatety pay the amount certified for the costs of the arrest and of the order of filiation, and enter into an undertaking with suffi-cient sureties, approved by the magistrates, to the effect, first, that he will pay weekly, of otherwise, as may have been ordered, the sum directed for the support of the child and of the mother during her ■confinement and recovery, or which may be ordered by the Court of Sessions of the county ; and that he will…
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- Cook v. . FreudenthalNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Wallsworth v. MeadNew York Supreme Court · 1812