Carpenter v. Goodall

This is an appeal from a paternity suit which was filed by the petitioner-appellee, by her next friend, against the defendant-appellant in the Marion County Juvenile Court, pursuant to the provisions of the Children Born Out of Wedlock Statute, Burns’ Indiana Statutes, §§ 3-623 to 3-658, seeking to have appellant adjudged the father of her child. Appellee’s original petition also asked that appellant be required to pay expenses of childbirth and support of the child, all as provided in the statute referred to above.

This cause of action was tried before the court without the intervention of a…