Baston v. Sears

This is an appeal on questions of law from the sustaining of a general demurrer to a petition, and the dismissal of tbe petition.

William Curtis Bastón, a minor, who sues by his mother and next friend, says he was born ont of wedlock, and that since then his mother has married a man other than his father. He further says ho has no adequate remedy at law to establish his relationship and obtain support from James Russell Sears, his father. Ho asks “that a declaratory judgment be rendered determining his rights, status, and legal relations” as to James Russell Sears. He also asks that Sears be…