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IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF FORCE, ETC.

No. 18,673.

126 Ind. App. 156 (1956)

131 N.E.2d 157

IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF FORCE BY STIENS, ETC.

Court of Appeals of Indiana.

Filed January 10, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex E. Poe, of Jasonville, and Charles V. Livengood, of Richmond, for appellants.

Theodore P. Duning, of Lewisburg, Tennessee (formerly of Richmond), and Robert L. O'Maley, of Richmond, for appellees.

BOWEN, J.

The appellees, Ralph Stiens and Marjorie Stiens, the latter referred to hereinafter in this opinion and in the testimony in the court below as Margie Stiens, filed their petition in the court below for the adoption of one Carolyn Marie Force, alleging in such petition that such child was abandoned and deserted by the mother of said child, Mary Force, more than six months immediately preceding the filing of the petition. The prayer of said petition asked...

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