Justices of the Inferior Court v. Chapman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Debt on bond. Demurrer to the petition in Heard Superior Court. Decided by Judge Warner, May Term, 1854. This was an action of debt, brought by the Justices of the Inferior Court of Heard County, against the defendants, on a bastardy bond.
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Debt on bond. Demurrer to the petition in Heard Superior Court. Decided by Judge Warner, May Term, 1854. This was an action of debt, brought by the Justices of the Inferior Court of Heard County, against the defendants, on a bastardy bond. The petition, among other things,, set forth that the defendants entered into said bond on a certain day specified, and duly and legally executed the same, by which they bound themselves to the plaintiffs, in the sum of Six Hundred and Eorty-two Dollars, Eighty-five and Three-fourth Cents, to which said bond the following condition was annexed: u The…
1Opinion of the Court
*92 By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] It would seem, from the terms of this bond, and the language of the petition, to have been the impression of the petitioners, the Justices of the Inferior Court of Heard County, that the bastardy bond is given for the protection or benefit of private citizens of the county, who may incur expenditures on account of the lying in of the mother, and the maintenance of the child, as well as for the protection of the county, generally, as-represented by the Inferior Court. That is to say, the intention of the Legislature was, that suit should be…
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