Jackson v. Cole

O’QUINN, Justice.

This is an appeal by the natural father of a male child from judgment in district court granting adoption of the minor by appellee, husband of the child’s natural mother.

The natural parents of the minor were divorced in Travis County by judgment entered July 21, 1967. Custody of the child, who was twenty months old, was placed in the mother, Linda Jo Cole, then Linda Jo Jackson. The father was accorded visitation rights and ordered to pay through the registry of the court the sum $37.50 twice a month for support of the child.

The mother thereafter, on November 9, 1968, was…