Commonwealth Ex Rel. O'Brien v. O'Brien

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Cohen,

We have allowed this appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court in order that Ave might determine whether, in an action for the support of a minor child, born during wedlock, a husband may obtain compulsory blood grouping tests in order to exclude himself from being the father of the child.

The present proceedings were instituted by the relatrix in 1954 in order to increase the amount of a support order entered in favor of herself and a daughter, *553and to include therein a son horn before her divorce.1 At the hearing before the Domestic Relations Division of the…