McFarland v. . Shaw

To prove that the defendant did debauch and get the plaintiff's daughter with child, the plaintiff's counsel first offered the examination of the daughter, Catharine McFarland, deceased, which was taken before two magistrates, wherein she charged the defendant with having been the father of a child with which she was then pregnant, in order to charge the defendant with the maintenance of said child, according to the act of Assembly. Objections were made to this testimony, and the presiding judge decided it to be inadmissible. The plaintiff then offered to prove the declarations of the…