State ex rel. Beason v. Law

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This is a proceeding to establish the paternity of the bastard child born to relatrix, an unmarried woman about sixteen years of age, and to pro,vide for the maintenance of the child. William W. Law was adjudged to be the father of the child, and required to pay certain sums of money at fixed times for its maintenance and education. The relatrix testified that appellant came to her father’s home on the farm on January 7, 1909, when all of the family except herself were absent, and that when she rejected his proposal to have sexual…