Morgan v. Gonzalez

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This is a child adoption case. Willie Morgan and wife, Santos B. Morgan, instituted suit in the District Court of Jim Wells County, seeking to adopt a four-year-old girl by the name of Margarita Gonzalez, without the consent of the child’s natural parents, Guadalupe Gonzalez and Gloria Morgan Gonzalez. The trial was to the court without the intervention of a jury and resulted in plaintiffs being denied the right to adopt the child, and the care, custody and control of Margarita Gonzalez were awarded to her natural parents, from which judgment Willie Morgan and wife,…