Willetts v. Jeffries
Supreme Court of Kansas
JEhror from Leavenworth County. The facts of the case are as follows: At the May term, 1869, of the district court, Leavenworth county, Kansas, this cause came on for a hearing on a demurrer to the petition filed herein in proceedings under the bastardy act, which demurrer was sustained and judgment entered for defendant, to which plaintiff excepted.
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JEhror from Leavenworth County. The facts of the case are as follows: At the May term, 1869, of the district court, Leavenworth county, Kansas, this cause came on for a hearing on a demurrer to the petition filed herein in proceedings under the bastardy act, which demurrer was sustained and judgment entered for defendant, to which plaintiff excepted. The petition alleged that the child was begotten in August, 1867, and was born in May, 1868; that defendant was the father; that Mary C. Willetts, the relator, was married in March, 1868, and was divorced in December, 1868; that these proceedings…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Valentine, J.
This is a proceeding under the act “ providing for the maintenance and support of illegitimate children.”
In August, 1867, the relator became pregnant with a bastard child, of which the defendant was the father. In March, 1868, she married another man; in May, 1868, the child was born; in December, 1868, she was divorced from her husband, and in February, 1869, she commenced this proceeding.
When the child was begotten, the relator was a single woman; when the child was born she was married; and when she commenced this proceeding she was again a single woman.
When the…
2Cited by15 opinions
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