Scott v. Scott

Boy Scott and Henry Scott brought their petition against Mrs. Belle Scott, the widow of B. H. Scott, alleging that the last named, in 1908, took plaintiffs from the Decatur Orphans Home under a parol agreement with “Howard L. Crumley, superintendent of the home, to adopt them;” that they lived with B. H. Scott until his death; that they were then six and eight years old, and Scott “took them into his own family and to his home as his own children, and has kept them there from the day he obtained them until the day of his death, all the while treating them as his own *291children, receiving the…