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82 Mass. 263

Paull v. Padelford

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1860

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1860-10-15

Bastardy process. At the trial in the superior court in Bristol before Vose, J., the complainant testified to two acts of intercourse between herself and the respondent, one on the 29th of May 1859, and one in July following, and that these were the only ones which they ever had together; and it was admitted that her child was born on the 12th of February 1860.

Decided 1860-10-15

Merrick, J.

¶1The evidence offered by the respondent was properly rejected. Phillips v. Hoyle, 4 Gray, 568. And no reason has been assigned which is sufficient to justify or authorize the inquiries which he proposed to make of the complainant relative to the question whether acts of intercourse between her and some person other than himself had not taken place more than ten months and twelve days previously to the birth *264of her child; or to show that his exceptions to the ruling of the court excluding those inquiries ought to be sustained.

¶2Exceptions overruled.

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