Goodrich v. Johnson

In this action, the appellee, “a minor, of the tender age of two years,” by her next friends, sued the appellant, as the administrator of the estate of Tensley Davis, deceased, in a complaint of a single paragraph, and alleged. therein, in substance, that in the year 1872 the said Tensley Davis begot a bastard child by Alice J. Johnson; that in 1872. the said Alice J. Johnson, the mother of said bastard child, commenced a suit in bastardy against said Tensley Davis, before a justice of the peace of Madison county, Indiana, charging under her oath, under the law in cases of bastardy, that the…