COM. ex rel. O'BRIEN v. O'BRIEN


390 Pa. 551 (1957)

Commonwealth ex rel. O'Brien v. O'Brien, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving R. Shull, with him Alfred I. Ginsburg and Bernard L. Lemisch, for appellant.

Norman R. Bradley, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO, ARNOLD, JONES and COHEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, November 18, 1957:

We have allowed this appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court in order that we might determine whether, in an action for the support of a minor child, born during wedlock, a husband may obtain compulsory blood grouping tests in order to exclude himself from being the father of the child.

The present proceedings were instituted by the relatrix in 1954 in order to increase the amount of a support order entered...

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