Clarke v. McFarland's Executors

Matilda McFarland Clarke, an infant, suing by her next friend, William Duncan, filed a declaration in assumpsit, against John McFarland Ferguson, administrator, and Mary Jinn McFarland, administratrix, of John McFarland, deceased—averring that, she Joeing the illegitimate child of the intestate, and her mother being about to institute proceedings against him for maintenance, he agreed with the mother, in consideration of her promise to for*46bear, and also to keep, and nurse, and Labor for, tho plaintiff, that ho would, from time to time, make such auxiliary contributions, in property and money,…