Crabtree v. Commonwealth, by Emily Chism

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Dismissing appeal.

This is a bastardy case instituted in the Monroe county court by the appellee, Emily Chism, against Hobart Emmert. Emmert was never summoned or appeared in the county court. The appellant, who is the county attorney of Monroe county, over the protest of Emily Chism, had the county court to dismiss the proceedings, and thereupon she appealed to the Monroe circuit court. Emmert has never been summoned or appeared in the proceedings in the circuit court. The county attorney made a like motion in the circuit court to dismiss the proceedings,…