In re Matthews

On the 23rd day of July, 1956, Clifton Clemie Miller and Mildred Pyles Miller filed their petition in the Chancery Court for the purpose of effecting the adoption of Allen Eugene Matthews. On motion of the Department of Welfare, the Chancellor dismissed the petition and hence this appeal.

The petition averred that they are husband and wife and residents of Knox County, Tennessee; that the minor child, 3 years of age, is an abandoned child within the meaning of the statute; that petitioners are 46 and 39 years of age respectively; that the child had been placed *164in their home for hoarding by the…