Burdsall v. Yount

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The parties entered into a written agreement dated May 20, 1971, by the terms of which the appellant defendant, Burdsall, acknowledging that the plaintiff accused him of fathering her illegitimate child and threatened legal action for support, and that he deemed it to his best interests to avoid a paternity suit with its attendant publicity, agreed with the mother to pay support for the child of $15 per week until it reached majority. After paying, according to his pleadings, some $600, he reneged, and this action is brought to recover a past due balance of $2,995. On…