Lewis v. Currie

BOYER, Chief Judge.

The trial court has entered a final judgment ordering the adoption of Eric Tyrone Lewis (age five) by appellees, the maternal grandparents of the child. Appellant, the child’s natural father, appeals the order of adoption, claiming that the trial court erred in finding that appellant had abandoned the child, and in ruling that the court was bound by a determination in a prior habeas corpus proceeding involving the child that the best interest of the child would be served by maintaining custody in the appel-lees.

After appellant’s marriage to Sharon Currie, daughter of…