People v. McKay
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, John McKay, from an order of the Court of Special Sessions of the second division of the city of New York, entered on the 22d day of November, 1901, adjudging the defendant to be the father of a bastard child born to one Emily Funk.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:. The judgment and order of filiation in the case at bar ought to be reversed, as against the weight of evidence. There is absolutely no evidence in the case, aside from the testimony of the mother, which would connect the defendant with the origin of. her bastard child. The testimony of the mother, which is not given with any degree Of circumstantiality, is to the effect that she met the defendant for the first time at a ball on the 5th day of January, 1901 that she made an engagement with the defendant to meet him on the following Wednesday, the ninth day of January, and that…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- People ex rel. Golden v. RooseveltAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Simis v. AlwangAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
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