Steele v. McDaniel

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery County whereby that court denied the appellant relief from a custody decree rendered on September 29, 1969 and an adoption order entered on December 19, 1972. The trial court granted a summary judgment against the appellant, Nelda Jean Steele, as to review of the custody decree and denied relief from the adoption order after hearing testimony ore tenus.

The appellant, Nelda Jean Steele, and Thomas Sayers were married in 1965. One child, Ruthie Alice Sayers, was born of this marriage. In 1966 Thomas Sayers was involved in an automobile…