Commissioner of Public Charities v. Vassie
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Alexander Yassie, from an order of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of Yew York, Part Two, Borough of Brooklyn, entered in the office, of the clerk of said court on the 3d day of August, 1914, adjudging defendant to be the father of the child of the complainant, and ordering him to support it and to give an undertaking for the performance of the order.
1Per curiam
The age of the complainant does not appear. But the proof is sufficient to show her settlement in Kings county when the bastard was bom therein. (Code Grim. Proc. § 839; Poor Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 42; Laws of 1909, chap. 46], § 40.) And as her residence in Yew Jersey had not been for a period longer than six months when these proceedings were begun, her settlement was then in the said county. (Id.) Therefore, we think that the court had jurisdiction. (Poor Law, § 62.)
The complainant was a domestic servant in the house of the defendant’s sister, and the defendant lived in that house. The…
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