PEOPLE EX REL. COVINGTON v. JOHNSON

Gen. No. 50,580.

79 Ill. App.2d 266 (1967)

224 N.E.2d 664

People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Geraldine Covington, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Quinnon Johnson, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

Rehearing denied February 9, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira I. Silbar, of Chicago, for appellant.

Daniel P. Ward, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and E. James Gildea, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order denying both a petition and a motion to vacate a judgment for the plaintiff finding the defendant to be the father of a male child born out of wedlock on January 3, 1959. The petition and motion were filed some five years after the judgment. The judgment was entered under the Paternity Act (Ill Rev Stats 1959, c 106 3/4, pars 51 to 66).

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