State v. . Harshaw

In the Superior Court, at Burke, on the last circuit, before his Honor,Judge Pearson, the defendant offered to show that before the County Court made the order he paid to the mother the sum of $40 and took her receipt therefor, in full satisfaction of all claim for any allowance for the maintenance of the child, and insisted that he was thereby protected, and that the County Court had afterwards no authority to make the order in question. But his Honor was of a different opinion and would not receive evidence of the alleged accord and payment, anterior to the order, and consequently execution…