Welch v. Funchess

This appeal involves the validity and effect of an adoption proceeding.

*696On December 9, 1912, John W. Funchess and his wife Laura Y. Funchess filed a petition in the Chancery Court of Copiah County, Mississippi, seeking the adoption of Nellie Christine Funchess, then some ten months of age. This petition states the petitioners desired to adopt the child ‘ ‘ and give her all the rights under the law of a child of their own, with right of inheritance and all other rights.” The petition stated the child was a foundling and petitioners did not know the names or identity of the parents, or either of…