Commonwealth v. Moran
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 107, April T., 1914, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Allegheny Co’., July T., 1913, No. 968, discharging rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense in case of Commonwealth to use of Blanche Bruce v. John J. Moran. Assumpsit on a bond. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was the order of the court discharging rule for judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
In the court of quarter sessions of Allegheny county one John Moran, Jr., entered a plea of guilty to a charge of fornication and bastardy and was sentenced to pay the usual fine, the costs of prosecution and $2.50 per week for five years for the maintenance of the child and to enter into a bond with surety in the sum of $500. The fine, costs and lying-in expenses were paid and the bond given with his father, John J. Moran, the present defendant, as surety. About a year later John Moran, Jr., the principal in the bond, died, having paid all of the $2.50 per week payments up…
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