115 Ga. App. 778 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1967
In accordance with the provisions of Code Ann. § 6-809 (a) (Ga. L. 1965, pp. 18, 29; Ga. L. 1965, pp. 240, 241; Ga. L. 1966, pp. 493, 500), this court ordered that defendant McLendon be served with a copy of the notice of appeal, as required by Code Ann. § 6-802 (Ga. L. 1965, pp. 18, 20; Ga. L. 1966, pp. 493, 495). The motion to dismiss on the ground of failure of such service is denied.
The fact that the petition is sought to be based upon a repealed statute—Code Ann. § 88-1111 (Ga. L. 1945, pp. 236, 241; Ga. L. 1953, pp. 140, 144), repealed by the enactment of the Georgia Health Code; Code Ann., new title 88 (Ga. L. 1964, pp. 499, 656, Par. 56) —does not, of itself, necessarily make the complaint fatally defective. Where the pleadings show facts stating a cause of action or defense under any applicable public domestic statute, the courts will take judicial notice of such statutes, even where they are pleaded incorrectly or not at all. See 82 CJS Statutes 1019, 1021, §§ 442a, 443; Sparks Specialty Co. v. Moss, 110 Ga. App. 585 (139 SE2d 345).
Former Code Ann. § 88-1111 provides, in part: “If the parents of an illegitimate child marry and the father dies before the birth certificate has been corrected, his name may be entered
Even if the local custodian be considered the proper representative of the Department of Public Health for the purpose of the action as so construed, however, the plaintiff failed to prosecute his case as to him, which was the basis of the court’s dismissal of the case as to the defendant local custodian.
Furthermore, the administrator of the plaintiff’s deceased putative father was a necessary party to such a proceeding. Although originally made a party, the administrator was eliminated as such, under the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the appellant’s enumeration of errors, by appellant’s failure to specifically enumerate as error the sustaining of the administrator’s general demurrer as it relates to dismissal of the petition against the administrator, and not relating to the other defendant.
The petition, as brought, did not state a cause of action for statutory relief under the existing applicable statutes; therefore,
Judgment affirmed.