Akers v. Johnson

MARY RHODES RUSSELL, Judge.

Wife appeals from a judgment in a paternity action establishing a father-child relationship between her deceased husband and his alleged child. She also appeals the denial of her motion to intervene. We reverse the judgment of the trial court declaring decedent to be the child’s father as the court never attained personal jurisdiction over decedent in that the putative personal representative lacked capacity to act as personal representative.

William Akers (“decedent”), an iron worker, sustained fatal injuries after falling off a building in St. Louis. His surviv*582ing…