Moffitt-Martin -paternity-Viola SKelton - Putnam

Source: Daily Greencastle Banner-Times, 14 Jan 1896 p2

Viola M. Skelton has been plaintiff in a paternity suit against Martin Moffitt before “Squire Denny, and Smiley & Carpenter were attorneys” for relatrix. Constable Webster arrested the defendant in this city this morning and a compromise was affected.  In the agreement the defendant paid the attorneys’ fees and costs of prosecution and pursuant to the compromise a license was procured and Squire Denny performed a marriage ceremony instead of an act of judicial sternness. The parties were all satisfied and left for Oakalla on the morning local freight. The charge against Moffet was an old one, he having been absent from the state.