The Bismarck Tribune

Detroit, Sept. 18.-(AP)-A story of tragedy of life, the separation of father and his son five years ago through the alleged "mixing" of infants in a hospital here, was before a circuit court jury today in the trial of the $200,000 damage suit of William C. Greatrex, Detroit against the Evangelical Deaconess hospital.

The child never was found though the father has devoted almost all of his time attempting to locate the boy.

Testimony presented by Greatrex was that his son, then two weeks old, was given by a hospital nurse to Eva Viemminck, unwed mother through mistaken identities. The mother of the Greatrex baby died soon after the child's birth.

Alphonse Viemminck, father of Eva, told authorities he had given the baby to some passing motorists bound for a Pennsylvania city. The long but futile search was then begun.

The father charges the hospital with wanton neglect.

The defense insists the babies were never mixed but that the wrong baby was mistakenly given out. Hospital authorities deny the wanton neglect charge and contend that the hospital is a charitable institution and therefore is not subject to liability.