Stowell v. Overseers
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari to two justices of the peace, to review proceedings had before them, under the provisions of the revised statutes relative to the support of bastards. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Whittlesey, J.
From the papers m this case it appears that the mother of the bastard child, before its birth, resided in the town of Hastings, Oswego county. The overseers of the poor of that town, fearing that the child would become .a charge upon it, in December, 1844, made application for a warrant against the plaintiff as putative father and obtained in a proper mode an order of filiation before two justices, adjudging him to be the father; from which he appealed to the general sessions without having made any provision or given security for the support of the child. Pending…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. Overseers of the Poor of Hastings v. StowellNew York Supreme Court · 1846
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