Williams v. Pope

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree in equity, the effect of which was to dismiss appellants’ petition for adoption of a child on the ground that the written consent of the child’s mother was withdrawn.

On November 28, 1966, Sarah Rebecca Pope gave birth to her seventh child, Cynthia Kay Pope. Two days later, she executed a written consent to the adoption of her new baby by her first cousin, Willie Elmer Williams, and his wife Lucy. She had orally agreed that they might adopt the baby some two months before it was born. On December 1, 1966, the Williams filed a petition for the…