Hull v. Jackson

On the twelfth day of May, 1957, the appellee, Shirley Jackson, an unmarried woman, became the mother of a child, Bonita Jackson, now living, and on the eighteenth day of August, 1959, she brought this proceeding against the appellant, James Hull, to require him to support the said child. On that date the child was twenty seven months and seven days old. Whereas Sec. 393, Miss. Code of 1942 reads as follows: “Proceedings under this chapter shall not he instituted by the mother after the child is twelve months old, unless the defendant he absent from the state so that process cannot he served…