SMITH v. SMITH

No. 4660.

300 So.2d 205 (1974)

Danny SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Brenda Cooley SMITH, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

September 11, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scofield, Bergstedt & Gerard by Robert L. Hackett, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellant.

Mitchel M. Evans, DeRidder, for defendant-appellee.

Kay, Stewart & Nichols by Robert B. Nichols, Jr., DeRidder, for curator-appellee.

Before FRUGÉ, CULPEPPER and WATSON, JJ.


WATSON, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from two judgments of the trial court; the first sustaining an exception of no cause of action in his attempt to disavow a child; and the second awarding a legal separation in favor of his wife on the basis of constructive abandonment.

Danny Smith, plaintiff, was married to Brenda Cooley Smith, defendant, on December 15, 1972. A child, Laddie DeWayne Smith, was born to defendant on March 13, 1973.

On April 6, 1973,...

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