In Re the Adoption & Custody of Underwood

Browning, Judge:

An appeal and supersedeas was granted by this Court on March 31, 1958, upon application by the West Virginia Department of Public Assistance, hereinafter referred to as the “Department”, to a decree of the Circuit Court of Wyoming County, entered October 5, 1957, whereby a previous order of that court, entered July 30, 1956, committing an infant, Karen Dawn Underwood, to the permanent care, custody and guardianship of the Department, was set aside, and all rights, duties, privileges and relations between Karen and the Department declared at an end, and permanent custody of…