Gorman v. Sherrod

1. Plaintiff in her petition having alleged in general terms that she had been adopted as the child of the foster mother, this allegation will be taken to mean that this was a legal adoption, and that she became the child of the foster mother. A subsequent contract between the foster mother and the child, made in 1915, when the child was preparing to leave the foster mother during minority, in which the mother agreed that if the child continued to live with and take care of her and work for her, a described tract of land was to be the property of the child, was without consideration, the…