Adoption of McAvoy v. Ekberg

This is an appeal from a judgment whereby adoption of Jerry McAvoy, a minor, by Elmer Ekberg and Evelyn Ekberg, husband and wife, was decreed and application for adoption by William Thelen was denied. William Thelen and Dolores Thelen, husband and wife, appeal.

The Ekbergs gave testimony to the following effect, and their evidence was fully corroborated by the testimony of Jane McAvoy-Connelly, the mother of Mrs. Ekberg and Mrs. Thelen, and by Robert and Leo McAvoy, their brothers, to-wit:

That Jerry McAvoy was born July 5, 1932, in Kansas City, Missouri; that his mother, Dolores McAvoy, now…