Madsen v. Poore

Plaintiff brought this action against the defendant by filing her complaint in writing before the county court for Keárney county, Nebraska, in the following language:

“Marie Madsen on this 20th day of June, 1934, personally appeared before me, L. E. Robb, County Judge of Kearney county, Nebraska, and being by me first duly sworn, on oath says that she is an unmarried woman, a resident of Kearney county, Nebraska, and that she is pregnant with child which, if born alive, will be a bastard, and that Jewett Poore is the father of said unborn child.”

On his plea of “not guilty” to this complaint,…