Beam v. Ray

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County dismissing a proceeding in bastardy.

In the affidavit complainant states that “she was an unmarried woman.” Upon trial it was conclusively shown that, at the time of the conception and on the date of the birth of the child, the complainant was an unmarried woman, but six months subsequent to the birth of the child and two years prior to instituting this proceeding she married her present husband, who is not the alleged father.

At the close of complainant’s case, the court sustained…