Howe v. Grimes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the surety on a bond given by one Lincoln Young as principal and the defendant as surety in a bastardy process under R. L. c. 82, in which Young was arrested as the alleged father of the plaintiff’s child and was released upon giving the bond in suit.
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Contract against the surety on a bond given by one Lincoln Young as principal and the defendant as surety in a bastardy process under R. L. c. 82, in which Young was arrested as the alleged father of the plaintiff’s child and was released upon giving the bond in suit. Writ in the Police Court of Somerville dated November 20,1908. The condition of the bond sued upon was as follows: “Now, therefore, if the said principal shall appear and answer to said complaint at the said Municipal Court, as above required, on the 22nd day of August at nine o’clock in the forenoon and so from day to day and…
1Opinion of the CourtDeCourcy, J.
On August 20, 1906, one Lincoln Young was arrested on a warrant issued upon a bastardy complaint, and on August 21 was released from arrest after giving the bond in suit signed by the defendant as surety. The hearing in the municipal court was continued from time to time until November 12, when Young defaulted. The case was duly transmitted to the Superior Court, and on April 10, 1908, Young, not appearing, was adjudged to be the father of the plaintiff’s child and was ordered to stand charged with the maintenance thereof.
The bastardy statute makes provision for two distinct bonds previous to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Farr v. RouillardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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