People Ex Rel. Adams v. Kite

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict directed for defendant-appellee Louis E. Kite in a paternity suit instituted by plaintiff-appellant Vivian R. Adams in the Circuit Court of St. Clair County under section 4 of the Paternity Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 106%, par. 54). The issue at trial was whether defendant was the father of plaintiff s child bom out of wedlock, and thus hable for support. See Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 106%, pars 51-53, 56.

Plaintiff testified that she met the defendant in March 1973 when she began work as a nurse’s aid at a nursing home in Belleville…