OMLIE ET UX v. Hunt

This is an appeal by John Hunt from an adoption decree, under which his three minor daughters were declared to be adopted by their maternal grandparents, Carl Anton Julius Omlie and Brynhild Omlie. Hunt’s wife, Alice Olene Omlie Hunt, the mother of the children and daughter of the petitioner-respondents, died on September 28, 1952. The petition for adoption was filed on October 20, 1952, at which time the girls were aged approximately two, five, and six years respectively. The adoption decree was entered on November 30,1954.

*474The adoption decree was entered without Hunt’s consent, and over his…