Proffitt v. Evans

J. PAUL KEITH, Jr., Special Commissioner.

This appeal is brought by Margaret Prof-fitt who claims that she was the adopted daughter of the deceased, Katie Evans. The trial court ruled that she was not the legally adopted daughter, and with that ruling we must agree.

The record shows that on February 9, 1914, an order was entered in the Mc-Cracken County Juvenile Court which vested custody of the defendant, deserted three-year-old baby girl, Valda Marguerite Mitchell (who is now Margaret Proffitt, the appellant) in Katie Evans “in all respects as her child as fully and completely as were it her…