Conder v. Helvey

OPINION

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Adoption case.

The appeal is by those who petitioned for decree of adoption, the trial court having denied application therefor and rendered judgment to that effect.

No findings of fact or conclusions of law were requested or filed. It is therefore to be presumed that one reason for the trial court’s disallowance of adoption was the judge’s opinion that to grant such would not be to the best interest of the child sought to be adopted.

Such circumstance could not be disregarded though we might consider correct the position of the appealing parties upon the law. We…