AFFILIATION CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 7 October 1882, Page 2

AFFILIATION CASE.

| ;jjp|-, f' '< Jqhn McKenzip Y rH. J, —Charge qf refpragtp siippprt illegitpate'chpd Ql Jessie MRfezie, daughter of plaintiff. ' ffcß«l»F%Pttt| Pefendantnaidhs (lad asked. Mr Reflfd tp for- hjm, buj aj !lo (defondftutj refilled tp give hjni ipfpr, mation oa certain points, Mr TBeard declined to do so. He had obtained another soli, citor, but he was not present. He denied the alleged paternity. Jessie MoKenzie (17 years of age) de. posed : I was in ihe service of Mr Taplin on the }st Jinwy last, Mrs Taplin, wife of #BPM 'Went riut £jbo«t one oJclocL- on wore lett at home. ■! Taplin laylon'th&BoJiii She got the dinner things ready to wash up, and as-she waa.carryiug a buckat otwatcr out to the sculky he followed her-ond caught holdof; her, ind toother toff the dairy; where'he' bad connection.wiJahir. ffitfno'b'tjier intefcouma hihi\%e chilu%aa born on tie 2ith 'Aiigusf, !$& Taplin■ waa :; t|i6 : fdther l »f it." staged a 'fortnight' at' : 'his hoftse aftev thS Ist |anuarjr: 'Had one'eonyerssffcioh WR ?f [ $ f| t|'e' j)ironnj§|a%e."He com', tngneed"i| hl«g if 'anything wastjia matter wifh her. She said she jLuglft so. %*} }?S r ' T?}lP" ||i§ Watnecf \\ 9 y vMw it w AndS'TO % wd, (t cquld ngt bg Anderson, To defendant i It was on the Ist January. The ohildron wore in the garden gathering cherries when you took me into the dairy. I had given notice to leave,' but might'havo efayed on had it not been for this.'.; fc?fhP» &9# -l did not tejl mjbrpfter' ajipi hvHatlhadioMii!rei|rw'hiift'3i? carne.tQ faplib's Kr'g 'Daft,' 'M CftJ*fi irflQUt 2 f)'itluck."' ''' " p '" f*' Tq defenq"anf t \ nection wjth any other, maii. * Mrs\ tfa,pljii was away pn ' a nrevjqus' occpoV jq November qp Decqmbei', J (jo/not pe> member who she went with, t .oould net say how long that would he before my ohild was bora, Defendant: It was 39 weeks' and five days.

.W*m cofltmugd! I can swear that I wH!i a.'re'iin wM (lay iMrJ! Tft'plm' \terlt/'?t#'MnsfteptbH ( there \ wasno maihfone inW comproy that'dajw Iswear you arethe father of the child, and no other mdn; :i >• ■■ > ■■■■ I .i ' .fyjjSr'Mfeale, briber of % last 3V}tqe49, J deftosed ;'■ f' wis'told by as' W Jissie's 1 'dondltibli. : I to Mi' Tanfin abcut it, aitf aske'd him va'atM had been Ijetwjen him pi my sister. He | said J i*i4'eftY apnaand likely tq faecop a, mother, 'He aajd I"I "am very serryj but fa a" mystery to me," I (aid, "Now Year's fin was the day it happened, Taplln, when your wife was away at Daysh's." Ho denied the paternity of the child. I said it would have to go to the Comt, and he sajd h<j should deny it Acre, i asked him tj-Wij&B was:will|ngto settle it out of Court, and heieaiaiir'o-jj' * ji■■ i lii 1 His Worshipprfntedout thaUhiaevMence was absolutely worthless/'if tjie^niothe'r l hail told foe brotlidr da New Yeat!s Day'(if evidto.' tothuW'sHe. W$ hw W Waj tq tW M cquk} n.ot he taken as cqrrqlwratiye evjdeno'e, WW lbs w#l b § merely corroborating heriejf, 9 Mr Bunny held that the statement of the mother of the child to her mother as to its paternity should of itself be considered corroborative evidence, and he coiild prb> duce cases in support of this argument; l^.;. His Worship ruled against this view as it would place top much power in the hands of an Utocrdpuloue woman, and. Mr Bunny taked-i™ to take itnojke'.of his otueolion'to' the ruling," 1 '" -•«..• ''••••.':. '»;» >i % ' Isabella' McKenzJe, mothor of Jessie P?H& Wed to 1 W Wmffil W%h» July last, M % EendingTjer son'tqTaphnabqutijt TO a»H jier daughter about her condition, and - n» to the father of the chid. ''-^T*\ His Worship said he could not admVthU / x conversation betwoen the mother and • daughter as corroborative evidence.;. ,ut Mr Burmy still held that such would be>./" good evidence, and asked his Worship t| take it down so that it might be referred'tl w)jen he produced his auttoritiee: i : „ jV ffi lfte;r^fn'^argum«nt' l tfi ! e i ' l t>urji was xadjpuraed'ot3Ote'enable'Mrßunny:'to produce ' '■•»•;* " Afjer tlj? adjournment tjje cane m re. qiineH. ftnd apinfit the plajnjffqn the grqur,d th'ajj fflef? was not sufficient a.3, to the paternltyof the child.