LEE v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 1695.

117 A.2d 922 (1955)

Grant LEE, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 4, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathaniel L. Adams, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Vernon E. West, Corp. Counsel, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Milton D. Korman, Hubert B. Pair, Jr., and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Juvenile Court determining appellant to be the father of an illegitimate child and ordering him to make weekly payments for support of the child.

One claim of error relates to the refusal of the trial court to receive in evidence a certified copy of the child's certificate of birth, which stated that the name of the father was "unknown." Our law requires that a physician attending the birth of a...

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