Kyle Bylin and Jeremy Morrison filed the Kyle Bylin Jeremy Morrison lawsuit after DNA tests showed they were switched at birth at Unity Medical Center in Grafton, North Dakota, 38 years ago. The case turns a decades-old hospital error into a live legal dispute and puts the hospital’s recordkeeping and responsibility claims at the center of the fight.
Bylin said his discovery began with an at-home DNA test during a Christmas gift-exchange, then led him to a biological aunt on a genealogy platform. He later said, “That’s when my mind was just completely blown” and, “We could have never imagined that it was an actual birth switch that occurred.”
Bylin and Morrison
The two men were born on Jan. 26, 1988, at Unity Medical Center. Morrison learned about the match after Bylin found his biological aunt, then had his own DNA tested. Morrison said he realized the connection when he saw a photo of Bylin’s brother.
Morrison lives in Colorado City, Colo., and works as a welding inspector for a wind energy company. He said, “I was loved. I played sports. I did well in school.” He also said, “A DNA test is not going to take away 38 years of memories.”
Unity Medical Center records
Unity Medical Center said there is no evidence staff were responsible for the switch. The hospital also said it has no medical or staffing records from that time, and that no members of the delivery team from then are still employed there. Those details leave the lawsuit to rely on DNA results, family accounts, and the hospital bracelet Bylin still has that misidentified him as Kyle Bylin.
The missing records matter because they limit what can be tied to a particular worker or process at the hospital in 1988. Without them, the case will likely turn on what the plaintiffs can show about the birth mismatch itself and what responsibility can be proven from the surviving evidence.
Evelyn Newton
Evelyn Newton said in a phone interview with The on Friday that she raised Kyle as her own. She said, “Kyle is still my son — that is never going to change,” and added, “But I feel robbed of the life I should have had with my biological son.”
Newton also said, “You can't go back and replace 35 years. First steps, driving a car, getting married — how do you make up for that?” The lawsuit now brings that family loss into state court while leaving the mechanism of the switch at Unity Medical Center unresolved in the records that survive.
