WEISS v. USSERY

6 Div. 72.

92 So.2d 916 (1957)

Dorothy P. WEISS, Superintendent, Alabama State Training School for Girls, v. Madeleine USSERY, Gladys Mohn.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Mary A. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Beddow, Gwinn & Embry, Birmingham, for appellee.


GOODWYN, Justice.

On March 16, 1956, one A. C. Sprouse filed a petition in the juvenile court of Lamar County seeking to have Madeleine Ussery, a female child of the age of 13 years and a resident of Lamar County, declared a delinquent and adjudged a ward of the state. A similar petition was also filed in the same court on June 7, 1956, by Ray B. Hankins, a director of the department of pensions and security. Both petitions recite the following: That the place of...

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