Brown v. Schoenberg

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a complaint which sought to establish defendant’s paternity as the father of a child bom to plaintiff on August 30, 1966.

On July 26, 1966, prior to the birth of the child, a complaint was filed by the State’s Attorney of Cook County on behalf of plaintiff to establish the paternity of the defendant as the father of plaintiff’s then unborn child. Hearing on the matter was continued from time to time, and the complaint was eventually dismissed on December 1,1966, for want of prosecution.

On May 26, 1967, plaintiff filed, in her own name, a second complaint…