Deffenbaugh v. Roden

On December ?, 1928, O. C. and Ida Deffenbaugh, husband and wife, were murdered in Crawford County, Arkansas. By this murder their two little children, Clifford Lynn, aged three, and Mary Virginia, aged fifteen months, were made orphans. Thereafter, on December 21,1928, the appellant, a paternal aunt of said children and the appellee, the maternal grandmother of said children, filed separate petitions in proper form and duly verified in the probate court of Crawford County, the residence of said children, for their adoption. The probate court, on the same day, heard both petitions separately,…