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COMMONWEALTH v. DILLWORTH

431 Pa. 479 (1968)

Commonwealth v. Dillworth, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Reargued May 3, 1966 and November 29, 1967.

October 3, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Alan Stotsenburg, with him William D. Miller, Frank M. Jakobowski and John A. Luchsinger, for appellant, Dillworth.

R. Alan Stotsenburg, with him Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., and Nix, Rhodes & Nix, for appellant, Murphy.

Gordon Gelfond, Assistant District Attorney, with him Joseph M. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

David Berger, for County Court of Philadelphia, intervenor.

John H. Lewis, Jr., for Legal Aid Society of Philadelphia, intervenor.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, October 3, 1968:

These two actions now before this Court arose under the Civil Procedural Support Law, Act of July 13, 1953, P.L. 431, as amended, August 14, 1963, P.L. 872, 62 P.S. Sec. 2043.31 et seq., originating in the Women's Division of the County Court of Philadelphia on complaints filed by the respective mothers of two children born out of lawful wedlock. Our Court, by order dated August 3, 1965, consolidated them for argument...

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