Donely v. Rockfeller
New York Supreme Court
Error from the C. P. of Columbia. The action in the Court below was debt on a penal bond, dated November 2d, 1817, executed by A. Donely and two others, to Rock-feller & Feller, as overseers of the poor of the town of Clermont, and conditioned to indemnify as well such overseers, 7 J 7 as all and every the other inhabitants, &c. against all costs, charges, rates, assessments, damages and expenses whatsoever, for or by reason of the birth, education and maintenance of a…
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Error from the C. P. of Columbia. The action in the Court below was debt on a penal bond, dated November 2d, 1817, executed by A. Donely and two others, to Rock-feller & Feller, as overseers of the poor of the town of Clermont, and conditioned to indemnify as well such overseers, 7 J 7 as all and every the other inhabitants, &c. against all costs, charges, rates, assessments, damages and expenses whatsoever, for or by reason of the birth, education and maintenance of a bastard child, begotten by one John Donely, one of the co-obligors on the body of Hannah Lasher, an inhabitant of Clermont,…
1Opinion of the Court
Woodworth, J
The declaration is on a bond, with condition to indemnify and save harmless the plaintiffs in the Court below, from all costs, charges, damages and expenses, by reason of the birth, education and maintenance of a bastard child. The breaches assigned, are, that the defendant has not indemnified the plaintiffs and their successors, in the premises, and by means thereof, they were obliged and did pay divers sums of money, that is $100 for the lying in expenses, and for the maintenance of the child; and further, that the successor in office of Feller, one of the plaintiffs, and…
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