In Re Adoption of Wilcox

UDALL, Justice.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory order in a proceeding initiated by Marguerite Wilcox joined by her husband, Walter Eugene Wilcox, Sr., the natural father, for the adoption of Walter Eugene Wilcox, Jr., a minor of the age (at time of hearing) of eleven years. These adoptive petitioners are hereinafter termed appellees. The natural mother and former wife of Walter Wilcox, Sr., is deceased. The maternal grandparents, W. H. Waggener and Lona Waggener, his wife, having unsuccessfully resisted in the lower court the petition to adopt, have brought their appeal to this court,…