Dugger v. Lauless

This is an appeal from an order setting aside a decree of adoption which had made the petitioners, who are the appellants in this case, the adoptive parents of Darryl Keith Lanless.

Myrtle Lauless, the respondent, is the natural mother of the child. In October, 1953, soon after she obtained a divorce from her husband, she placed the child, then ten months of age, in the custody of the petitioners. A few months later she and the petitioners discussed the possibility of the latter adopting the child. In April, 1954 the natural father’s written consent to adoption was obtained. At about the same…