Sabins v. Jones
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint under the bastardy act, Gen. Sts. c. 72, to the justice of the Third District Court of Bristol, alleging that the complainant was then pregnant with child, which, if born alive, would be a bastard, accusing the respondent with being the father of the child, and charging that the child was begotten on February 15, 1874, in Dartmouth. The jurat on the complaint was as follows: “ Bristol ss.
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Complaint under the bastardy act, Gen. Sts. c. 72, to the justice of the Third District Court of Bristol, alleging that the complainant was then pregnant with child, which, if born alive, would be a bastard, accusing the respondent with being the father of the child, and charging that the child was begotten on February 15, 1874, in Dartmouth. The jurat on the complaint was as follows: “ Bristol ss. Received and sworn to on the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-four, before said court. Alanson Borden, “ Justice of the Third District Court of…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
The objections to the jurisdiction of the court were seasonably taken. It is contended that the justice of the District Court had no authority to receive the complaint and issue the warrant. But the District Court and the justice thereof have the same jurisdiction, power and authority as Police Courts and the justices thereof have under the Gen. Sts. c. 116. St. 1874, c. 293, §§ 1, 5. By the Gen. Sts. c. 116, § 16, the justice of a Police Court may receive complaints and issue warrants when the court is not in session; and this section applies to complaints under the-bastardy act. Richardson…
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