PATERNITY TEST

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1934, Page 7

PATERNITY TEST

BLOOD-GROUP AS EVIDENCE.

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, August 29. A doctor’s evidence of blood tests tendered in a suburban Children s Court yesterday revealed that a baby was not the offspring of its mother’s husband. . Although the mother was living with her husband most of the time, she yet took proceedings to recover maintenance against another man, whom, she alleged, to be the father of the child. . x Doctor Eva Shipton, pathologist and biochemist, gave evidence that she had performed certain blood-grouping tests on the husband, the wife and the child, and these showed conclusively that the woman’s husband could not possibly have been the father of the child. The Court then ordered the unreavealed defendant to pay the complainant £l5 preliminary expenses, and also professional expenses, together with 10/- per week maintenance. Doctor Shipton states that this department of pathology and medical science is much more advanced in Europe and in America, than it is in Australia. While the theories of blood-group-ing used in this instance were generally accepted by leading men in all parts of the world, this is regarded as being the first case of its kind in Australia, and probably in the British Empire.