Green v. Cochran
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Washington Owouit Gourt. • The petition in substance alleges that one Caroline M. Cocliran was pregnant with a bastard child, and that she and the defendant conspired and confederated together to charge upon petitioner the crime of bastardy and seduction perpetrated upon the said Caroline, she being an unmarried woman; and that in pursuance of said conspiracy the said Caroline, by the procurement, and at the instance of defendant did, on the 11th day of February,…
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Appeal from Washington Owouit Gourt. • The petition in substance alleges that one Caroline M. Cocliran was pregnant with a bastard child, and that she and the defendant conspired and confederated together to charge upon petitioner the crime of bastardy and seduction perpetrated upon the said Caroline, she being an unmarried woman; and that in pursuance of said conspiracy the said Caroline, by the procurement, and at the instance of defendant did, on the 11th day of February, 1874, commence an action and proceeding for bastardy, accusing petitioner of being the father of her illegitimate…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, J., iuflvor’of011 court’s ruling. I. The plaintiff, in making out his cause in chief, placed on the witness stand one Mrs. Joseph Cochran, stepmother of Caroline Cochran, and propounded to ^er following questions, after it had been s]10wn tlhat defendant had taken the witness, Caro- *547: State existing be-line, while pregnant, to the house of one Roster whether or not there was an unfriendly feeling tween you and Caroline?” The defendant’s objection to this question as irrelevant was overruled, and the witness answered as follows: “There was a friendly feeling; and I had her there to work…
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