PHILLIPS BY & THROUGH UTAH, ETC. v. JACKSON

No. 15618.

615 P.2d 1228 (1980)

Deborah J. PHILLIPS and State of Utah, By and Through UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. Jeffrey Walker JACKSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Utah.

July 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathon H. King of Utah Legal Services, Salt Lake City, for defendant and appellant.

Robert B. Hansen, Atty. Gen., R. Paul VanDam, Salt Lake County Atty., Gerald Conder, Deputy Salt Lake County Atty., Salt Lake City, for plaintiffs and respondents.


STEWART, Justice:

Plaintiffs initiated this lawsuit to establish defendant's paternity of a child born out of wedlock to plaintiff Phillips and to compel defendant to support the child. The case was tried to a court sitting without a jury. The court found the defendant to be the father and ordered support payments to be paid. The central issue on this appeal is whether the trial court erred in admitting the results of a relatively new scientific test known as the...

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