Carper v. Ridpath
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Audubon District Court. — Hon. O. D. Wheeler, Judge. Proceeding for specific performance of a contract to adopt a minor, and to establish the right of the child alleged to have been adopted to share in the property of the parent, who is deceased. Decree was entered for the plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWithrow, J.
I. Hattie Carper, the appellee, claims in this proceeding an interest in the property of Joseph Bidpath and Bebecca Bidpath, both deceased, under an alleged contract to adopt, made between them and Alice Johnson, mother of appellee, at a time when Hattie was about four years old. The mother had been abandoned by her husband, and was at the time with relatives in Mahaska county, near New Sharon, which was also the neighborhood residence of the Bidpaths. The trial court found that plaintiff, appellee, had been taken into the home of the Bidpaths under an oral agreement that they would legally…
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