Wall v. Estate of McEnnery
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Garfield county, Miller, J., entered September 17,1917, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for specific performance, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, C. J.
Maggie Wall, the respondent, was born about the year 1866. When about two years old her father died. Her mother put her in a charitable institution. Afterwards, possibly in the year 1871 or 1872, one James Newman and wife were given the custody of the child.
*446Respondent says that she was adopted and went to live with the Newman family on a large ranch near Sacramento. There is no evidence of an adoption. Adoption by the Newmans is assumed rather by counsel from a lack of evidence, a showing being made that the court records in San Francisco county, California, were destroyed in the fire that…
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