Olson v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This action having como on for trial in the district court for Houston county, Page, J., presiding, the defendant, Mathea Johnson, moved for a dismissal, for failure of the complaint to state a cause of action. The motion was granted, and judgment entered for defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.
At the May (1871) term of the district court for Houston county, upon a trial under the bastardy act, (Gen. St. c. 17,) the plaintiff was adjudged to be the father of a bastard child, begotten upon the body of the defendant, Mathea Johnson. Sections 6 and 7 provide that the person so adjudged to be the father of a bastard child may “ bo charged with the maintenance thereof, in such sum or in such manner as the court may direct,” and that he “ shall *302give bond, to the commissioners of the proper county, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, for the performance of such judgment…
2Cited by5 opinions
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- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1944
- State ex rel. Mattes v. Juvenile Court of the County of RamseySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1920
- State v. NoxonNebraska Supreme Court · 1914
- Mad v. PrSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1979