# Deatherage v. Phipps Ex Rel. Martin

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · October 17, 1967 · 441 P.2d 1020

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9550201

## Case

- **Full name:** Alfred E. DEATHERAGE, Plaintiff in Error, v. Donna Ann PHIPPS, a Minor, by and Through Her Mother and Next Friend, Marjorie Leona Martin, Defendant in Error
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** October 17, 1967
- **Citations:** 441 P.2d 1020; 1967 OK 221; 1967 Okla. LEXIS 562
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Hodges
- **Judges:** Hodges, Jackson, Irwin, Davison, Williams, Blackbird, Berry, Lavender, McIner-ney
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9550201

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that, in case in which neither husband nor wife disputed legitimacy of child born in wedlock, third party was barred from doing so

## Opinion text

HODGES, J.,
dissents.
The Court acknowledges the services of Chai Wheeler, who with the aid and counsel of Kay Wilson, Jr., and Joe R. Kennedy, as Special Masters, prepared a preliminary advisory opinion. These attorneys had been recommended by the Oklahoma Bar Association and appointed by the Court. The Chief Justice then assigned the case to Vice Chief Justice IRWIN, for review and study, after which and upon consideration by the Court, the foregoing opinion was adopted.

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