Fey v. Woods

CRAMER, Justice.

This is an appeal in a bill of review proceeding to set aside an adoption and to deny the adoption. It appears from the statement of facts that on June 20, 1947, a petition was filed to declare Claudia Jean Butler, then about twenty months old, a dependent and neglected child, alleging that the mother, at that time, was confined in the State penitentiary and'the father in the Federal penitentiary; , that the party in whose custody the child was then placed had a bad reputation and was npt a proper person to have such custody. Proper notice was issued and served on the mother…