In Re Talley's Estate

In the year 1926 James R. Burgess, hereinafter called petitioner, was a boy of 14. By the written consent of himself and his only live parent, and by proper procedure of the county court in accordance with sections 1701 to 1716, O. S. 1931, 10 Okla. St. Ann. §§ 41 to 56, he was adopted by Thomas F. Talley and Cynthia Talley, husband and wife.

Five years later the natural parent filed a petition for adoption in the same county court, praying that petitioner be his adopted child and "be restored to him as the relation stood prior to said former adoption" and that he be given his original name of…