Small's Administrator v. Peters

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

Horace Small and Ed Eice, both negroes, lived in Mason county. Small’s wife and Eice’s wife were relatives. Small’s wife was delicate, and they had no children. When Eice’s daughter Myrtle was about six years old she went to the home of Small and wife on a visit, which lasted some weeks. At the end of that time Small and wife brought her back to her father and mother and wanted to adopt her. Ed Eice was unwilling to give his child away and did not want her name changed, thinking they would have to change her name if she was adopted. After…