Ellis v. Woods

Mobley, Justice.

The defendants in error contend that the judgment excepted to is not a final judgment from which a direct appeal can be taken. The plaintiffs in error objected to the adoption proceeding and prayed that the petition for adoption be dismissed, and that they be given custody of the child. Code (Ann.) § 74-413 provides that, at an interlocutory hearing on a petition for adoption, “If the court is satisfied that the natural parents have just cause to be relieved of the care, support and guardianship of said child, or have abandoned the said child, or are morally unfit to retain…