Clark v. Holland

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a final decree of the circuit court in a habeas corpus proceeding in which the custody of a minor child, Edna Darlene Clark, was awarded to the adoptive parents, Richard and Marjorie Holland, the appellees here and respondents below.

The original petitioner in the instant proceeding was the child, suing by next friend, Frances Smith, as agent of the Lawrence County Department of Pensions and Security. The petition was amended prior to trial to add as parties plaintiff, Mrs. Mary Keener Lawson, the natural mother of the child, Joe Lawson, the step-father,…