Legal Opinion
Combs v. Edmiston
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided December 12, 1949No. 4-9026PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
Appellants are husband and wife and prosecute this appeal from an order of the Miller Probate Court denying and dismissing their petition to adopt a child. We will refer to the mother of the child as appellee, she having intervened in the adoption proceedings with her father as next friend.
Appellee was an. unmarried nurse 19 years of .age and resided in a nurses’ home at Iiodge, Louisiana, where the child in question was born on September 26, 1948. On the night of birth the child was taken to the Volunteers of America, a maternity home at Shreveport, Louisiana. On…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Green v. PaulSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1947
- In Re Adoption of a MinorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1944
- Wyness v. CrowleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- State ex rel. Platzer v. BeardsleySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1921
- Fitts v. CarpenterCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1939
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Adoption of McKinzieMissouri Court of Appeals · 1955
- A. v. BSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1950
- A. v. B.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1950
- McCluskey v. KerlenSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1983
- D-P v. Social Service & Child Welfare Department of the Relief Society General Board Ass'n of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsUtah Supreme Court · 1967
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