Carrier v. Vermeulen

WIGGINTON, Chief Judge.

Appellants seeks review of a final decree entered in an adoption proceeding by which the prayer for adoption was denied but the care, custody, control and education of appellant’s minor daughter was awarded to appellees.

There is no essential dispute in the material facts on which the decision must turn. Appellant is the natural father of the minor, Susan Ruth Helen Carrier, whose custody forms the subject of this appeal. Appellant married the child’s mother in 1947, and thereafter established their home in Portland, Oregon, where *194Susan was born. Marital difficulties…