Hubert v. Cloutier

This complaint in bastardy was duly tried before a jury. At the conclusion of the complainant’s case the respondent rested without introducing any evidence and each party moved for a directed verdict. The motion of the complainant was granted and that of the respondent denied. To these rulings the respondent has filed exceptions.

The complainant at the time the child was conceived and born was a married woman; and the presumption is that such child born during wedlock is the child of her husband and legitimate. In early times in England such presumption was held to be conclusive, if the wife…