Wilson v. Clary

Stukes, Justice:

Beryl Eugne Clary (Betty Ann Wilson) was born in Greenville on the 23rd day of March 1934. When she was only about three months old her mother died and her father, Paul R. Clary, gave the infant child to Mr. and Mrs. Ira T. Wilson, a deaf mute couple without children of their marriage. The child is normal and had reached the seventh grade in school at eleven years of age when the court proceedings under review were had in 1945.

On March 4, 1943, the father, who was then in the United States Navy, executed a deed of the child to the Wilsons whereby he committed to them the care,…