Dutton v. Seevers
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mahaska District Court. — Hon. J. K. Johnson, Judge. Action to recover for the support of a child. There was a verdict and judgment for the defendant. The verdict was set aside, and both parties appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtKinne, J.
This is an action by the administratrix of L. K. Dutton, deceased, for recovery of compensation for keeping, boarding and maintaining the child of Thomas Seevers. In 1876, Seevers married the daughter of L. K. Dutton, and the child in question was born to them July 8, 1877. When the child was six months old, the mother left her husband, and she and her father took the' child to the father’s home, where it was cared for and maintained by him until Dutton’s death, in January, 1890. In 1881 Seevers and his wife were divorced, and in said action it was decreed that the mother of the child “shall…
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