Commonwealth v. Dillworth

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

These two actions now before this Court arose under the Civil Procedural Support Law, Act of July 13, 1953, P. L. 431, as amended, August 14, 1963, P. L. 872, 62 P.B. Sec. 2043.31 et seq., originating in the Women’s Division of the County Court of Philadelphia on complaints filed by the respective mothers of two children born out of lawful wedlock. Our Court, by order elated August 3, 1965, consolidated them for argument as both eases present an identical question.

In Billworth’s case, the complaint was filed on November 26, 1963; in Murphy’s case, on November 21,…