BABY’S PARENTAGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22354, 30 August 1934, Page 10

BABY’S PARENTAGE

SYDNEY MAINTENANCE CASE BLOOD TESTS AS EVIDENCE (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 29. (Received August 30, at 0.5 a.m.) A doctor’s evidence of blood tests was tendered in a suburban Children’s Court yesterday and revealed that a baby was not the offspring of its mother’s husband. Although the mother has been living with her husband most of the time, she took proceedings to recover maintenance against another man, whom she alleged was the father. Dr Eva Shipton, pathologist and biochemist, gave evidence that she performed certain blood grouping teats on the husband, the wife and the child, and these showed conclusively that the woyian’s husband could not possibly have been its father. The court ordered the unrevealed defendant to pay complainant £ls as preliminary .expenses, also professional expenses, together with 10s a week maintenance. Dr Shipton stated that this department of pathology and medical science is much more advanced in Europe and America than in Australia. While the theories of blood grouping used in this instance were generally accepted by leading men in all parts of the world, this is regarded as the first case of its kind in Australia, probably iin the British Empire,