Hodge v. Sawyer
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This was a complaint in bastardy tried to a jury in the Superior Court, for Cumberland County, where the verdict was for the complainant, and the defendant alleged exceptions. The first exception is based on overruling the defendant’s motion to dismiss the proceedings because the complainant’s name was left out of the certificate of the oath of the complaint although it appeared immediately before in the complaint, of which the oath is a part.
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On exceptions. This was a complaint in bastardy tried to a jury in the Superior Court, for Cumberland County, where the verdict was for the complainant, and the defendant alleged exceptions. The first exception is based on overruling the defendant’s motion to dismiss the proceedings because the complainant’s name was left out of the certificate of the oath of the complaint although it appeared immediately before in the complaint, of which the oath is a part. The next exception was to the refusal of the presiding justice to instruct the jury that upon the testimony given at the trial, the…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
Bastardy complaint. The child was begotten in Cumberland County in this State, where the defendant was resident and the complainant commorant. Before the child was born, the complainant, a minor, returned to her father’s house in New Hampshire and was there delivered. Afterwards, she came to Portland for the purpose, and made this complaint, but has had no residence in this State since the child was born. The complaint alleges her residence to be in Cumberland County.
After motion to dismiss the complaint for causes that will be considered later, the case went to tidal on the merits,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Peabody v. HamiltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
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