Johnston v. Chapman

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

This opinion, concurred in by two members of this Court, becomes the majority opinion of the Court. This matter is before the' Court upon petition for a writ of mandamus to require the trial judge to reinstate the jury verdict in the original hearing and to render judgment for relators setting aside an adoption decree entered in Cause No. 2096 of said trial court on September 15, 1949. The relator, Mildred Mae Johnston, 1 was formerly married to Newton Bingham, the son of T. A. Bingham and Rachel Bingham. To the marriage of Newton Bingham and Mildred Mae Bingham was born a…