Lunsford v. Maida

This is an appeal from a judgment in an action to determine the parentage of a child born out of wedlock.

The appellee has not filed a brief in support of the judgment of the trial court. The rule is well established that the failure of an appellee to file a brief controverting the errors asserted, where the appellant’s brief makes a prima facie showing of reversible error, may be taken as a confession of such errors. This rule has not been established for the benefit of the appellant, but for the protection of the court, and it has been repeatedly held that whether it is invoked is…