Adoption of McFarland Ex Rel. Green v. Kellett

This is a proceeding for the adoption of a minor child based on the provisions of article 1, chapter 11, Revised Statutes Missouri 1919. The petitioners are E. J. Green and Maggie O. Green, his wife. The minor is John Henry McFarland, age thirteen years, who was a resident of West Plains, Missouri, at the time the petition for adoption was filed, April 19, 1928, in the Juvenile Division of the Howell County Circuit Court. His father died some years prior to the institution of these proceedings and his mother also died April .13, 1928. The minor was left with an estate, in property and money,…