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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE
October 10, 2000 Session STATE OF TENNESSEE, ex rel. JUDY LYNN STANLEY v. JOHN FRANK HOOPER
Appeal from the Juvenile Court for Dickson County No. 04-99-009-M A. Andrew Jackson, Judge

No. M2000-00916-COA-R3-CV - Filed January 11, 2001

This is an appeal from the trial court's order finding the appellant to be the natural father of the appellee's minor child. The appellant contends that the trial court erroneously denied the appellant's request for a jury trial and that the trial court erroneously excluded an out of court statement identifying the appellant's brother as a potential father. We affirm the judgment of the trial court. Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right ; Judgment of the Juvenile Court Affirmed and Remanded BEN H. CANTRELL , P.J., M.S., delivered the opinion of the court, in which WILLIAM C. KOCH , JR. and WILLIAM B. CAIN , JJ., joined. David D. Wolfe, Dickson, Tennessee, for the appellant, John Frank Hooper. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter and Stuart Wilson-Patton, Assistant Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee, Department of Human Services, ex. rel., Judy Lynn Stanley. OPINION

This case involves a paternity dispute that initially arose in 1990 and was eventually appealed to this Court. This Court reversed the trial court's judgment of paternity finding that the conclusive presumption of paternity set out at Tenn. Code Ann.

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