State Ex Rel. Anonymous Ex Rel. Richard v. Murphy

HUNTER; Presiding Judge.

This controversy comes to us on an application for a writ of mandamus. Richard and Roger -, minors, by their mother and next friend --, filed a petition in the Jackson County Circuit Court, seeking a declaratory judgment declaring that Sgt. -, defendant, a nonresident of Missouri and a member of the United States Armed Forces, stationed in Maryland, is the natural father of Richard and Roger.

Relators in their circuit court petition alleged that they are residents of Jackson County, Missouri; that their mother was never married to defendant, but that he had acknowledged…