Rucker v. Moore

Hutcheson, Justice.

1. A parol obligation by a person to adopt the child of another, accompanied by a virtual though not a statutory adoption, and acted upon by all parties concerned for many years and during the obligor’s life, may be enforced in equity upon the death of the obligor, with respect to any claim such child, as a child, may have *748against the estate of the obligor, undisposed of by will. Crawford v. Wilson, 139 Ga. 654 (78 S. E. 30, 44 L. R. A. (N. S.) 773).

No. 12439. September 23, 1938.

2. The first essential of a contract for adoption of ai child, where no statutory adoption…