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BALL v. CAMPBELL

No. 39623.

55 So.2d 250 (1951)

219 La. 1076

BALL v. CAMPBELL.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 5, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wisdom & Stone, Saul Stone and Paul O. H. Pigman, all of New Orleans, for Protestant Home for Babies.

Ellis, Ellis & Lancaster, Frank B. Ellis and James E. Wright, Jr., all of New Orleans, for Mr. and Mrs. William Slaughter Ball, plaintiffs and appellants.

Horace G. Pepper, Max M. Schaumburger, Beryl E. Wolfson, Baton Rouge, Henican, James & Cleveland, all of New Orleans, amicus curiae.

C. L. Stiffell, New Orleans, for Wilma Annabel Campbell, defendant-appellee.

HAMITER, Justice.

Presented by this appeal for consideration is the matter of the adoption of a female child born in the City of New Orleans on November 19, 1947.

Twenty-four days after such birth (December 13, 1947) the 31 year old unmarried mother, Wilma Annabel Campbell, executed a notarial act by which she formally surrendered unto the Protestant Home for Babies of New Orleans (and it accepted) the full legal care, custody, control and possession of the...

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