Case ID: ill-app_207/html/0144-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Victoria Zajac, Appellee, v. Anthony Ostrowski, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 23,061.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Appeal and error, § 866
      
       — when abstract is insufficient. An abstract in bastardy proceedings which was silent as to what proceedings were brought against defendant and as to what verdict or judgment was entered against him, and was otherwise a mere index of the proceedings, held insufficient.
    
      Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hosea W. Wells, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed July 2, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Bastardy proceedings by the People of the State of Illinois on the relation of Yiqtoria Zajac, plaintiff, against Anthony Ostrowski, defendant. Prom a judgment against him, defendant appeals.
    Arnold M. Ehrlich and Thomas E. Swanson, for appellant.
    Maclay Hoyne, for appellee; John P. Cashen, Jr., of counsel.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Yols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Dever

delivered the opinion of the court.

2. Appeal and errob, § 1752 - — when judgment affirmed. The judgment of the trial court in bastardy proceedings should he affirmed where the appellant files an insufficient abstract.

3. Bastards, § 22* — when evidence supports inference that relatrix was unmarried. In bastardy proceedings, evidence held sufficient to warrant an inference that relatrix was in fact an unmarried woman at the time of her relations with the defendant.