GRIFFITH v. PELL

No. 2002-CA-00532-COA.

881 So.2d 227 (2003)

Joseph GRIFFITH, Appellant, v. Sue Ann PELL, Next Friend And Parent of Stephanie Ann Pell, Minor, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied October 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Peterson Smith, for Appellant.

Mark W. Prewitt, Vicksburg, for Appellee.

Before SOUTHWICK, P.J., BRIDGES, and CHANDLER, JJ.


SOUTHWICK, P.J., for the court:

¶ 1. This is a paternity action. The mother of the subject child brought the suit against someone other than the man who several years earlier she had claimed was the father. That first-identified father married the mother before the child was a year old. He had no reason to doubt that the daughter was his own until the child was age four. The spouses were by then involved in a divorce. The chancellor in the present paternity suit...

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