In Re Adoption of Duren v. Hicks

This case was ordered transferred to this court from the Kansas City Court of Appeals under Sec. 10, Art. V, Const. Mo. 1945, and our Eule 2.06. There are several important issues on the merits, but the first question for our determination is whether the dominant issue is preserved for appellate review on the record and briefs transferred.

The cause originated in the Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court" of Jackson County, which sustained the respondents’ petition for the adoption of Stanley Duren, an orphan boy eight years old, and decreed accordingly under Sec’s 9608-9613, 1 after a…