Volz v. Abelsen

This is an appeal from the order of the circuit court of Multnomah county denying the petition of appellants for the adoption of their grandson, a lad of the age of seven years. The boy’s mother, a daughter of petitioners, died January 3, 1949.

*321The mother and the child’s father, the objector and respondent, were divorced in November, 1945. Tinder the terms of the divorce decree, the mother was awarded full care, custody and control of the child. On the date of the birth of the child, the father was in the armed services, and the mother took said child to her parents ’ home where the child has…