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SMITH v. SHAFFER

511 Pa. 421 (1986)

515 A.2d 527

Shirley SMITH, Appellee, v. Cloyd J. SHAFFER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 25, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel K. Deardorff, Carlisle, for appellant.

Michael R. Rundle, Carlisle, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

LARSEN, Justice.

We granted this petition for allowance of appeal from an order of the Superior Court, 341 Pa.Super. 627, 491 A.2d 926, affirming the lower court's grant of a new trial. The issue at trial was whether Cloyd Shaffer, appellant, was the biological father of an infant born to appellee, Shirley Smith.

A jury trial was held in the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County. At trial, appellee testified that she had...

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