W. O. MURRAY, Chief Justice.
On March 7, 1953, Fred Engelking and Iva Engelking, husband and wife, filed their petition for the adoption of a minor child named Linda Sue Mann, in the District Court of Bee County, Texas. On the 16th day of April, 1953, Virginia Pettit, the natural mother of the child, filed her petition in the same court for a writ of habeas corpus to recover the custody of the child. These two causes were consolidated, and tried together on April...
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