Hellings v. Amey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
"Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county. In the Court of Quarter Sessions for the oounty of Philadelphia, in October, 1827, John Hellings, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of fornication and bastardy, and sentenced by the court to pay to the prosecutrix, Hannah Amey, the sum of fifteen dollars for lying-in expenses, and seventy-five cents per week for the support of the child from its birth, until it should arrive at the age of seven years, and to…
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"Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county. In the Court of Quarter Sessions for the oounty of Philadelphia, in October, 1827, John Hellings, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of fornication and bastardy, and sentenced by the court to pay to the prosecutrix, Hannah Amey, the sum of fifteen dollars for lying-in expenses, and seventy-five cents per week for the support of the child from its birth, until it should arrive at the age of seven years, and to give bonds to the guardians of the poor in three hundred dollars, to make such payments, &c. On the 26th of June, 1828,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
When it was determined in Eby v. Burkholder, that an order of maintenance could not be enforced by action, the allowance to the mother had acquired no quality of a debt. By subjecting a sentence for the payment of money to the operation of the insolvent laws, as an ordinary duty, the legislature have authorized' the party convict to treat it otherwise. By the seventeenth section of the general insolvent act, it is directed, that “ any person who shall be in confinement by order of any court, until he restore to the owner any stolen goods…
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