MacE v. Webb

STEWART, Justice:

This appeal is from an order of the district court requiring the defendant to pay child support for plaintiff’s minor child and declaring that the defendant, who was shown by blood tests not to be the child’s natural father, had adopted the child by acknowledgment. We reverse.

In June 1973 plaintiff, an unmarried woman, gave birth to a son. The defendant, who had been living with her for several months, assumed responsibility for the medical expenses of the birth. Defendant signed the birth certificate as the child’s father, and the child was given defendant’s surname. The…