DORTON v. DORTON

No. 8319DC853.

318 S.E.2d 344 (1984)

Ronald W. DORTON v. Barbara S. DORTON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irvin, Irvin & Pickett by R. Wayne Pickett, Concord, for plaintiff-appellee.

Williams, Boger, Grady, Davis & Tuttle by John R. Boger, Jr., Concord, for defendant-appellant.


PHILLIPS, Judge.

The court had no authority to issue the order appealed from and it is hereby reversed and set aside. G.S. 8-50.1 authorizes judges to order blood grouping tests only in cases "in which the question of parentage arises." The parentage of the two children involved in this case is no longer an open question. It was long since set at rest in more ways than one. In the first place, by his own verified complaint filed thirteen years ago, plaintiff alleged...

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