High Court Decision In "Whose Baby" Case
♦ — - | Received Thursday, 5.45 p,m. j MELBOTJRNE, Dec, 22. ■ By a majority of 3 to 2, the High Court ruled today against the claim of I a mother who alleged she had been given the wrong baby in the Ivyneton Hospital. The Court dismissed with costs, an app^eal from a judgment by the State Full Court whicli had set aside an order by Mr. Justice Barry that the chil^ regist°red as Nola .Tenkins should be surrendered to Mr. and Mrs. W. M, Morrison. Tn a dissenting .iudgment, the Chief Justice, Sir Jqhu Latham, said it was elear Mrs. Morrison hacj been given the wrong baby. A gir] was born to Mrs, Morrison at the Kyneton Hospital on , June 22, 1945, within a few minutes of a girl being born to Mrs. ,T, .Tenkins, but the baby, given to Mrs. Morrison I and subsequently known as Johanne -Lee Morrison, was not her ehild. Mr. .Tustice Owep said th.e wejfare of the children was paramount and unless proof exeluded all real doubt, Nola should rextiain with tbose who brought l her pp. _ _ , . . ...... . i A
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 December 1949, Page 5
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188High Court Decision In "Whose Baby" Case Chronicle (Levin), 23 December 1949, Page 5
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