Copas v. Reents

WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff in error, Ray C. Copas, on December 18, 1958, as petitioner, filed in the Children’s Court of Oklahoma County, a petition to deprive the parents of Ronnie J. McKenzie, a child under eighteen (18) years of age, of his custody, asking for the temporary custody of such child to be placed in his wife and himself and praying appointment of a person who might give consent to the adoption of the child.

The court set the matter for hearing. Petitioner filed an affidavit that the last known address of the child’s mother was at a certain location in California. A notice…