Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Edwards

INGRAM, Justice.

The State of Alabama sought a writ of mandamus directing the District Court of Lee County to withdraw its order granting Elton C. Curtis’s request for a blood test. The Court of Civil Appeals denied the State’s petition for the writ of mandamus, and we granted the State’s petition for the writ of certiorari.

In 1982, Antionette Edwards sued Elton C. Curtis, alleging that he was the father of her illegitimate child. At the request of Curtis, the District Court of Lee County (acting as the juvenile court) ordered blood tests performed to determine the paternity of the minor child…