Cooper v. Thompson

CRAWFORD, Judge.

Plaintiff Robert E. Cooper appeals from an order of the Circuit Court dismissing his petition to declare him the natural father of a child born to defendant Patricia Lynn Thompson while she was lawfully married to defendant Albert Thompson.

The petition was originally filed in the Juvenile Court and was dismissed after an evidentiary hearing in that court. Plaintiff appealed from this dismissal to the Circuit Court for a trial de novo. The record in this court does not contain any transcript or statement of the evidence of the Juvenile Court proceeding. At the conclusion of the…