Ventresco v. Bushey

The majority opinion of this court has now declared that the presumption of legitimacy may be rebutted by the declarations, admissions or testimony of the mother as to *252the non-access of her husband, therefore making it legally possible for the mother (in this case) to bastardize her own child. The majority of the court speaks in the following language:

“We do not lightly cast aside a rule of evidence which has never before been challenged by our court. But in the face of facts such as are apparent in the instant case where blind adherence to an illogical doctrine can result only in the…