Black v. Brown

Appeal by the respondent from an order of filiation of the Family Court of Broome County, and from an order of support. The only testimony in this case bearing on sexual relations comes from the petitioner who is a married woman. She testified that she and her husband had not lived together since March of 1963 and, according to her testimony, they were last alone in privacy in the Summer of 1963. However, he continued to reside within a few blocks of her and as of the apparent time of conception she often saw him on the streets in the city where they resided. There had been no contractual or…