Hutton v. Bretsch
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, George W. Bretsch and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of St. Lawrence on the 1st day of July, 1912, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the St. Lawrence Trial Term before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
This action was brought against the defendants as sureties upon an undertaking in bastardy proceedings. One Maggie Devendorf, of the town of Macomb, St. Lawrence county, gave birth to a bastard child on the 18th day of August, 1910. Upon her information a warrant was issued by Alvin W. Fetterley, a justice of the peace of that town, for the arrest of Boss Pierce, of Theresa, N. Y., and charging him with being the father of said child. The warrant contained a direction to the justice of the peace in Jefferson county, who was to indorse the warrant, to admit Boss Pierce to bail…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Constable v. KennedyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
3Cited by1 opinion
- People ex rel. Lawton v. SnellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915