Smallwood v. Swarner

CLAUDE WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of adoption of Susan Ann Smallwood granted to Max J. Swarner, and his wife Marguerite Swarner, the child’s maternal grandparents. Kay Smallwood, the child’s natural mother, and her husband B. Stanley Small-wood, Jr., the adoptive father, did not consent to the adoption and they appeal from the decree.

Kay Smallwood was first married to Hugh Tankersley. Of that marriage two children were born: Stephen, on January 31, 1959, and Susan Ann, the subject of the present adoption, on September 9, 1961. Stephen was adopted in 1967 by his…