Pope v. Kincaid

Woods, Judge:

The writ of error was issued in this case to review the proceedings in a ease of bastardy prosecuted by Lucile Pope against the plaintiff in error. Upon the trial in the circuit court the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was adjudged to be the father of the illegitimate child of the said complainant, Lucile Pope, and the usual order and judgment was entered by the court for the support of such child, as provided by statute.

In 1921, the complainant, then a girl of fifteen, came to Richwood, where she secured work in a clothes-pin factory. She became acquainted…