Coleman v. Coleman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Howard Chancery Court; James D. Shaver, Chancellor; statement by the court. In 1895 J. W. Bowlen, the father of John Bowlen, an infant child about a year old whose mother was dead, apprenticed his infant son to D. L,. Coleman of Howard County, Arkansas, during t-he full period of his minority.
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Appeal from Howard Chancery Court; James D. Shaver, Chancellor; statement by the court. In 1895 J. W. Bowlen, the father of John Bowlen, an infant child about a year old whose mother was dead, apprenticed his infant son to D. L,. Coleman of Howard County, Arkansas, during t-he full period of his minority. The articles of apprenticeship specified that D. L. Coleman should furnish the infant, John Bowlen, with board, lodging, medicine and other necessaries, send him to school one-fourth of the time after he arrived at seven years of age, and on t-he other hand that the apprentice should…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal by Heenan Coleman, a brother of D. L. Coleman, deceased, from a judgment of the chancery court of Ploward. County holding that an order of adoption made by the probate court of that county on the petition of D. L. Coleñian was a valid order, and had the effect to make the adopted child the heir of Coleman. The petition upon which this order of adoption was made is not set out in the record, but the recitals in the order itself show all the jurisdictional facts required by the statute.
The language of the statute is that “any person…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In re Estate of WilliamsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1894
- Morris v. DooleySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1894
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- Avery v. AverySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1923
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