Dineen v. Williams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, against John Williams as principal, and Dennis McCarthy as surety, upon a bond dated December 12, 1882, payable to the plaintiff, and conditioned that Williams should appear at the term of the Superior Court next to be holden at Salem, in the county of Essex, on the first Monday of December, 1882, and answer to a complaint made by the plaintiff on her examination on oath before the Police Court of, Lawrence, charging him with being the father of a bastard child of…
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Contract, against John Williams as principal, and Dennis McCarthy as surety, upon a bond dated December 12, 1882, payable to the plaintiff, and conditioned that Williams should appear at the term of the Superior Court next to be holden at Salem, in the county of Essex, on the first Monday of December, 1882, and answer to a complaint made by the plaintiff on her examination on oath before the Police Court of, Lawrence, charging him with being the father of a bastard child of which she was pregnant, and that he should abide the order of the Superior Court thereon. Writ dated October 20, 1883.…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
Proceedings in a bastardy case under our statutes are of a peculiar character. They are commenced like criminal proceedings, by a complaint upon which a warrant issues for the arrest of the defendant. If he, upon a hearing before the proper magistrate, is adjudged to be the father of the child, as alleged in the complaint, he is required to give a bond with sureties to appear at the Superior Court and answer to the complaint, and abide the order of the court thereon. If he fails to give such bond, he is committed. It is the duty of the magistrate to transmit to the Superior Court the bond, if…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Reed v. HaskinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
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