BRUNT, ET UX. v. WATKINS, ET UX.

No. 40622.

233 Miss. 307 (1958)

101 So.2d 852

BRUNT, et ux. v. WATKINS, et ux.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 7, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee B. Agnew, Barnett, Jones & Montgomery, Jackson, for appellant.


GILLESPIE, J.

Appellants filed a petition to adopt a female child about two years old and named as defendants the natural parents of the child. At the first hearing, the chancellor found that the natural parents had not abandoned the child and ordered it taken from the custody of appellants, who had had the child in Mrs. Brunt's nursery since it was six weeks old, and granted custody to the natural parents. The case was then continued for six months.

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