ALICE v. RONALD

No. 13601.

683 S.W.2d 307 (1984)

ALICE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. RONALD, Defendant-Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Three.

December 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Reeves, Ward & Reeves, Caruthersville, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John R. Fowlkes, Caruthersville, Jimmy D. Collins, Memphis, Tenn., for defendant-respondent.


TITUS, Judge.

A person born of parents not married to each other is denominated a "bastard." Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Ed., p. 124. Chris is such a child whose mother is Alice and whose admitted father is Ronald.

Alice and Chris, a minor by Alice, his next friend, sued Ronald. The petition filed April 28, 1983, asked the court to decree that Ronald was the father of Chris and to require Ronald to pay Alice's birthing...

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