Shepherd v. Marsaglia

This is an appeal from an order entered by the Circuit Court of Grundy County, Illinois, dismissing Counts I, II and IV of plaintiffs’ complaint and entering judgment in favor of the defendants. The complaint originally consisted of four counts but Count III was dismissed on oral motion of plaintiffs.

Count I of the complaint referred to by the parties as a “common law” count alleges in substance that plaintiff, Edwin L. Shepherd, Jr., is the son of plaintiffs, Edwin L. Shepherd, Sr., and his wife Priscilla M. Shepherd, and that he was on the 23rd day of October, 1957, a minor of the age of…