Herrin v. Graham

The Supreme Court, in determining its jurisdiction and in transferring this case to this court, excised the attempted constitutional question and gave a brief history of the case. See Herrin v. Graham, 209 Ga. 281 (71 S. E. 2d, 550). The only questions with which we are here confronted are the validity of the trial court’s judgment denying the prayers of the petition for adoption and the validity of the judgment awarding custody of the child to its natural mother.

1. The modern tendency is to give adoption statutes a liberal construction in order to effect their benevolent purposes and to…