Case Name: Hitchcock v. Grant
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1788-03
Citations: 1 Root 107
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hitchcock v. Grant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 107–108

Head Matter:
HARTFORD COUNTY,
MARCH TERM, A. D. 1788.
Hitchcock v. Grant.
It is requisite, in order to .recover maintenance for a bastard child, upon the statute, that the mother charge the man in the time of her travail.
Writ or Error, to reverse a judgment of the County Court, in a prosecution for maintenance of a bastard child, brought by said Hitchcock v. Grant upon the statute. The defendant plead in bar, that the complainant had not been constant in her accusation of said Grant, and that she did not accuse him of being the father of said child in the time of her travail.
Tbe plaintiff admitted in her reply, that sbe did not, and assigned some reasons wby sbe did not. To wbieb a demurrer was given; and tbe County Court judged tbe reply to be insufficient.
Error assigned — Tbat said County Court ought to bave judged said reply sufficient.

Opinion:
And tbe judgment of tbe County Court was affirmed by tbe Superior Court; upon tbe ground tbat tbe statute mates her charging tbe man.in tbe time of ber travail an essential requisite, in order to tbe plaintiff's having or maintaining ber suit upon tbe statute for tbe maintenance of a bastard child.