Owles v. Jackson

ODOM, Justice.

On January 10, 1918, the plaintiff, Percy J. Owles, and his wife, who died December 3, 1937, appeared before a notary public and two witnesses and signed an act in which they declared that they “have adopted and do hereby formally adopt as their own child,' Willie Jackson, who is now 9 years of age, and in the possession and under absolute control of the Louisiana Children’s Home Society, a" corporation domiciled at Jennings”, Louisiana. The act was signed also by E. B. Dillard, superintendent of the. Children’s Home Society.

On the same day, the plaintiff and his wife appeared…