Hays v. McFarlan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit, in Harris Superior Court. Tried before Judge Woeeill, at October Term, 1860. This was an action brought by John W. Hays, administrator of Martha Ann McKee, deceased, against Isaac B. McFarlan, to recover the amount of two promissory notes, dated the 30th of August, 1857, due the 25th of December thereafter, signed by the defendant, and payable to the plaintiff’s intestate, for $500 00 each.
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Assumpsit, in Harris Superior Court. Tried before Judge Woeeill, at October Term, 1860. This was an action brought by John W. Hays, administrator of Martha Ann McKee, deceased, against Isaac B. McFarlan, to recover the amount of two promissory notes, dated the 30th of August, 1857, due the 25th of December thereafter, signed by the defendant, and payable to the plaintiff’s intestate, for $500 00 each. To this action the defendant pleaded: That the intestate of plaintiff, in her life time, was pregnant with a bastard child by somebody, and that the plaintiff and one Samuel Amos, the brother of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lyon, J.,
delivering the opinion.
The objections to this judgment are to the admissibility of the evidence, the charge of the Court, and the verdict of the jury, and all of them may be resolved into one, that is, whether the consideration of the note, the subject matter of the suit, is good and sufficient in law ? Mrs. McKee, the plaintiff’s intestate, was pregnant with a bastard child, of which the defendant was the reputed father, and her friends applied to him to know what he would do for her, and that he must do something before she left for the State of Louisiana, or she would…
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