Winchester Medical Center, Inc. v. Giffin

By JUDGE ROBERT K. WOLTZ

The issue in this case is the legal obligation of a father, who is under court order to supply support for an infant child, to a creditor who has supplied a necessary to that child. The essential facts are stipulated. The precise issue seems never to have been decided in this jurisdiction.

The child was the legitimate, unmarried and otherwise unemancipated offspring of the defendant and his former wife. The parents were divorced in 1975 and the matter referred to the juvenile and domestic relations district court for future considerations on custody and support under…