WOODSIDE v. PEOPLE

No. 18489.

326 P.2d 980 (1958)

Melvin WOODSIDE, Plaintiff in Error, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado in the Interest of the Unborn Child of Stella M. Harper, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied July 7, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seavy & Seavy, Pueblo, for plaintiff in error.

John R. Wall, Pueblo, for defendant in error.


MOORE, Justice.

We will refer to the parties involved in this action by name. In the trial court Stella Harper filed her petition under C.R.S. 1953, 22-7-1 et seq., in which she alleged that Woodside was the father and was contributing to the dependency of her unborn child, in that he:

"* * * fails and refuses to support said child or to pay to petitioner, mother of said child, any money to defray the expense of the pregnancy and birth of said child."

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