In Re Declaring Phelps

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by the adoptive parents of two minor children, a boy aged eleven years and a girl aged four years at the time of the proceedings, from a judgment entered in the district court of Carter County which adjudged the two children to be dependent and neglected and awarded their custody, care and control to the State Department of Public Welfare, pending a further determination as to the agency or institution to which the children would be committed permanently, and ordered the adoptive parents to pay $50 per…