Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1874

Burt v. Ayers

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 5, 1874

116 Mass. 263; 1874 Mass. LEXIS 72

Cases that cite this one

2 later published cases cite this decision.

Lenahen v. Desmond (Mass. 1889)
Sabins v. Jones (Mass. 1875)

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Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The supplementary complaint in a bastardy process is not the foundation of the proceedings, but only an alie*265gation of the material facts with a view to a convenient and orderly trial. Chapel v. White, 3 Cush. 537. Reed v. Haskins, ante, 198. The objections to its form in this case are groundless. It is in the name of the complainant and signed by her attorney j and it alleges that the respondent is the father of her child, and begot her with child at a time and place which it states, and sets forth all the other facts necessary to charge him.

Exceptions overruled.

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