WOODSON v. LEE

No. 4-9967.

254 S.W.2d 326 (1953)

WOODSON v. LEE et ux.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

January 26, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talley & Owen and Dean R. Morley, Little Rock, for appellant.

Reece Caudle, Russellville, for appellees.


WARD, Justice.

John Bernerd Woodson here seeks reversal of an order of the Probate Court which granted adoption of his young son, John Bernerd, Jr., to the father and mother of his divorced wife and mother of the boy. In reaching the conclusion it did the Probate Court held, necessarily, that appellant had abandoned the boy for a period of six months before the petition for adoption was filed.

The only question before us is: Did appellant, under the facts...

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