Tuttle v. Palmer

In January 1963 the plaintiff was pregnant and on January 16 of that year the defendant, who was twenty-three years old, entered into a written agreement wherein he acknowledged that he was the father of the child. He agreed to pay the plaintiff ten dollars per week for the child’s support until the child’s eighteenth birthday. In exchange; the plaintiff agreed not to take any legal action against him. Shortly after the child’s birth on May 24, 1963, the defendant began his payments and continued to do so until February 2, 1974, nearly eleven years later. Since that time, the defendant has…