Austin v. Davis

The complaint in this cause consists of three paragraphs.

The material allegations in the first paragraph are, substantially, that in the year 1868, when the appellant was four years of age, John S. Johnson and Elizabeth D. Johnson, husband and wife, without children, and residing in the city of Indianapolis, proposed, in writing, to the mother of the appellant, then living alone with the appellant at the town of Yeoga, in the State of Illinois, that if the said mother would surrender to them the appellant they would take her as their own child, provide for her and bring her up as their own,…