Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wright v. Hendrick

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

By his own admission Fred Wright, the appellant, is the father of three children born out-of-wedlock to *38one Beverly Thomas, a resident of Philadelphia. On February 5, 1964, in proceedings instituted under the provisions of the Pennsylvania Civil Procedural Support Law,1 in the County Court of Philadelphia (now the Family Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas), Wright was ordered to pay $5 weekly towards the support of one of these children. On September 20, 1965, in a separate proceeding under the same statute, he was ordered to pay $5 weekly towards the…