Hicks v. Brooks

MOORE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment declaring a child to be dependent and neglected under the provisions of Article 2330 et seq., Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Texas Statutes. Appellees, Emory Willie Brooks and wife, Lillie Mae Brooks, instituted the suit against appellant, Annie Hicks and husband, L. M. Hicks, in the Juvenile Court of Dallas County, Texas, alleging that Sandra Lavern Hicks, the minor child of appellants, was dependent and neglected in that the child was destitute and did not have proper parental care. After a trial without a jury, the trial court entered judgment declaring…