Wright v. Price

KNIGHT, Justice.

Appellants filed in the probate court of Houston county their petition to be allowed to adopt Winnie Ruth Price, a girl under the age of ten years, the child of Ethel Jane Price, now dead, and H. C. Price, Jr. While the mother of this child was dead at the time the petition was filed, her father is still living, but is confined' in the penitentiary of this state under a sentence thereto for his natural life, and, therefore, is civilly dead. Code, § 5293.

The petition for adoption framed under the provisions of the amendatory act of 1931, was filed on the 7th day of October,…