COUNTY OF LENOIR EX REL. COGDELL v. JOHNSON

No. 798DC713.

264 S.E.2d 816 (1980)

COUNTY OF LENOIR ex rel. Cyconcia Faye COGDELL v. Ervin O'Berry JOHNSON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Whitley, Kinston, for plaintiff-appellant.

Vernon H. Rochelle, Kinston, for the defendant-appellee.

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Gen. R. James Lore, Raleigh, for the State, amicus curiae.


WELLS, Judge.

The sole question presented in this appeal concerns the constitutionality of the three-year statute of limitations set forth in G.S. 49-14(c)(1), which limits the time in which an action to establish the paternity of an illegitimate child must be commenced. Plaintiff argues that the statute violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution of the United States in that no such statute of limitations is provided for a support action instituted on...

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