Montgomery v. Moore

The minor here involved, Michael Allen Miller Moore, is the son of Patty Moore, and her husband Kenneth Moore is the father by adoption. C. P. Montgomery is the child’s maternal grandfather. During the child’s infancy and for about three and a half years he was reared by the maternal grandparents while his mother was at work for salary or wages.

On or about December 11, 1952, the child’s parents took him from his grandfather’s home and some two days, later the grandfather signed a petition addressed to the county court seeking to have the child declared a dependent and neglected child.

This…