Hartley v. Hand

An original bill in equity was filed December 12, 1923, by Valla Lee Hand, alleged to be over twenty-one years of age, with petitioner and another attorney as her counsel. The purpose of the bill was to enforce the specific performance of an adoption contract as manifested by an instrument executed and acknowledged and filed for record, but not attested by two witnesses (section 9302, Code), to the extent of investing her with such part of the estate of deceased as she would have been entitled to receive if said instrument of adoption had been duly executed. It did not recite the nature of…