Campbell v. Fisher

This is an appeal by Donald Fisher, father of Linda Lou Fisher and Donna Lynn Fisher, from a decree entered by the County Court of Winnebago County, adjudging Linda Lou and Donna Lynn to be the adopted children of the petitioners, William F. Campbell and Grace L. Campbell.

In their petition for adoption petitioners alleged that the father, Donald Fisher, was unfit to have said children by reason of abandonment, or desertion of them for more than six months next preceding the filing of the petition. In his answer Mr. Fisher denied these allegations and he now contends that there was…