| Description | Brief for the Easter Sessions 1835 in the case of the overseers of Barton (respondents} and Thomas Dodds (appellant) to support an application for an order against the father of a bastard child. The child of Jane Robinson daughter of John Robinson of Barton labourer was born on 17 January 1835, and she has since lived with and been supported by her father. Dodds courted Jane Robinson for four years and promised her marriage |