Petrous v. Roberts

We are called upon to determine whether the Pedrick rule is applicable to a case brought under the Paternity Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 106¾, par. 51, et seq.) and, if so, whether the trial court correctly entered a judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of plaintiff after a jury had found defendant not to be the father of plaintiffs child.

The plaintiff, Elizabeth Petrous, testified that during the period of conception she was with defendant while he was stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas, that she had sexual relations with him, and with no others, and became pregnant by him; and that…