Schilling v. White

GLADNEY, Judge.

This appeal arises from a judgment of the Juvenile Court of Caddo Parish denying Mrs. Lorraine Thornton Schilling a final decree of adoption of Katherine Jo Robbins and revoking and setting aside a previously granted interlocutory decree.

Mrs. Schilling, a widow and the maternal grandmother of the five year old child sought to be adopted, initiated this proceeding on June 22, 1964 by filing a petition governed by the provisions of LSA-R.S. 9:421-9:441, attaching to the petition the consent to the adoption signed by Katherine Annette Schilling Robbins, the natural mother of the…