In re Smith's Will

The statute required the instrument of adoption to be filed in the office of the probate court of the district in which the person making the adoption resides, being a resident of the State, and that such instrument should be signed and sealed by each party and acknowledged by each before the probate judge in whose office it is filed. But in the instance under consideration, the person, Yiola Chapell, sought to be adopted, being a minor — she was then only six years of age — the instrument of adoption was to be signed, sealed, and acknowledged on her part by one of her parents, or, if under…