Lee v. State ex rel. Lee

PATTERSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Forrest County affirming an order of the County Court which adjudged Jacqueline Suzanne Lee, an infant, to be a neglected child. The court withdrew her custody from her father and mother and awarded her custody to the Forrest County Welfare Department for *879placement in a suitable home pending further order of the court.

This suit was initiated in the County Court pursuant to the authority of Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated section 7185-05 (1952) of the Youth Court Act. The petition charges that the infant child of Mrs.…