Case ID: ohio-law-abs_5/html/0253-02.html
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Author: {"author": "JONES, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 290
    No. 20019
    The State, ex rel. Effie Beebe, v. Glenn Cowley.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Lorain County.
    129a. BASTARDY PROCEEDINGS — 1. Sec. 12123 GC. (110 O.L. 299) as amended on April 5, 1923, does not include an award ot attorneys fees or an amount for the bastard child- for care and maintenance from date ot birth to date of trial.
    2. By amendment the maintenance of bastard child charged to the reputed father was abolished and in lieu thereof he is charged only with support of mother and expenses during pregnancy and childbirth.
   JONES, J.

1. A sum, which includes attorney fees for the prosecution of bastardy proceedings, or which includes an amount for the care and maintenance of a bastard child from the date of its birth to the time of trial, cannot be awarded to the complainant under the provisions of Section 12123, General Code (110 O. L. 299). as amended on April 5, 1923.

2. Prior to the amendment of said section, the reputed father was charged with the child’s maintenance: in the amendment that provision was eliminated and, in lieu thereof, provisions were made whereby he was charged only with the mother’s support, maintenance and necessary expenses caused by her pregnancy and child-birth.

Judgment affirmed.

Day, Kinkade, Robinson and Matthias, JJ.,