Dorton v. Dorton

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The court had no authority to issue the order appealed from and it is hereby reversed and set aside. G.S. 8-50.1 authorizes judges to order blood grouping tests only in cases “in which the question of parentage arises.” The parentage of the two children involved in this case is no longer an open question. It was long since set at rest in more ways than one. In the first place, by his own verified complaint filed thirteen years ago, plaintiff alleged that the two children were born of his marriage to the defendant. This allegation having been neither withdrawn, amended, nor…