People Ex Rel. Brown v. Baker

This is an action brought under the Paternity Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 40, par. 1351 et seq.) in which plaintiff, Ida Brown, charged the defendant, Ronald Baker, with fathering her daughter born out of wedlock on November 21, 1978. The defendant answered the complaint denying paternity, and a jury subsequently returned a verdict of not guilty. The trial court denied a post-trial motion for judgment non obstante veredicto, and the appellate court, in a Rule 23 order (73 Ill. 2d R. 23), finding that the Pedrick standard (Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern R.R. Co. (1967), 37 Ill. 2d 494, 510)…