122 W. Va. 282 - Gabbart v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““A careful reading would indicate that there are four elements of which the right of a married woman to recover for the support and maintenance of her bastard child is comprised: (a) She must have lived separate and apart from her husband for a space of one year or more; (b) she must not at any time during that separation have cohabited with her husband; (c) she must have been delivered of a child subsequent to the expiration of that year and while the separation continued; and (d) the defendant must be a person other than her husband. “This Court has heretofore dealt with' the necessity of proving each of the conditions prescribed by statute as prerequisites of a married woman’s right to recover under this same statute. . . . We are impressed with the fact that the conditions this Court has held indispensable to be established by the proof in a bastardy proceeding, are' just as indispensable to be shown on the face of the written complaint and the warrant based thereon.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 147 W. Va. 803 - State Ex Rel. Worley v. Lavender