Lewis v. Reed

The judgment of the Court of Appeals was rendered upon the admissions and statements of counsel, no testimony whatever being taken. The facts, as they appear in these statements, are in general not disputed, and may be summed up as follows:

In 1923, Jewel Galbraith was born in Cincinnati of Edna Mae Galbraith, an unmarried mother, a resident of Kentucky, while Edna Mae Galbraith was visiting her cousin in Cincinnati. The mother intrusted the child to Frances Kirk, daughter of a certain Mrs. Wand, with whom Frances Kirk was then living. Until the summer of 1926 the child lived in and was cared…