Brown v. Boudreaux

SCHOTT, Judge.

On October 18, 1966, an acknowledgment of his paternity as to Karen Brown, a child of defendant, Hilda Boudreaux, was purportedly signed by plaintiff, Charles Brown. Plaintiff has appealed from a dismissal of his suit to have his purported signature on the acknowledgment declared a forgery. The only issue in this court is whether the trial judge committed manifest error in his resolution of a factual dispute between the parties.

On August 8, 1977, plaintiff was tried in the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Jefferson for criminal neglect under LSA-R.S. 14:74 and was condemned to…