IN RE PATERNITY OF M.A.V.

No. 88-1006.

149 Wis.2d 548 (1989)

439 N.W.2d 829

IN RE the PATERNITY OF M.A.V.: STATE of Wisconsin, Petitioner-Respondent, v. J.L.T., Jr., Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided March 7, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For respondent-appellant there were briefs and oral argument by Kirk J. Foley of Korpela & Foley Law Office, of Hurley.

For petitioner-respondent there was a brief and oral argument by David Vernon Penn, District Attorney/Corporation Counsel, Vilas County.

Before Cane, P.J., LaRocque and Myse, JJ.


LaROCQUE, J.

J.L.T., Jr., appeals a judgment of paternity entered pursuant to a directed verdict. The dispositive issue is whether any credible evidence at trial supported the jury finding that J.L.T. was not the father of M.A.V. Despite the jury finding, the trial court directed a verdict in favor of the petitioner, State of Wisconsin. Because the mother's essentially unchallenged testimony, coupled with the rebuttable but unrebutted presumption that accompanied...

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