Benton v. Starr
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint under the bastardy act. The defendant was bound over upon it, by a justice of the peace, to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, and the case was tried in that court before Bradstreet, J. Judgment for the plaintiff and appeal by the defendant. Ths case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
This is a bastardy suit. The complaint first alleges the capacity in which the plaintiff appears—“as he is father and guardian of Fannie E. Benton,” and then avers that on the 5th of December, 1886, she was delivered of a bastard child begotten by the defendant on or about the 1st of March, 1886; that in the time of her travail at the birth of the child she was put to the discovery and charged the defendant with being father of the child, and has been constant in her accusation; that when the child was begotten she was and ever since has been a single woman; and that the child lived until the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- State v. KinneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1876
- State v. BeaudetSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1886
- Booth v. HartSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1876
- Robbins v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
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