Broome v. Edna Gladney Home

RENFRO, Justice.

Appellant Mary Lou Broome appealed from a judgment wherein the trial court refused to set aside a dependency judgment and award custody of an infant boy to her.

Appellant, a single girl nineteen years of age gave birth to the child in question on April IS, 1955, while a patient in The Edna Gladney Home. On the 20th of April, she signed an instrument in which she released her parental rights to the child and consented that The Edna Gladney Home might place the child for adoption. On the same date, April 20, 1955, a sworn petition addressed to the Juvenile Court of Tarrant County…