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IN RE ADOPTION OF MYERS

265 S.W.2d 12 (1954)

In re Adoption of MYERS.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

February 11, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bess Blake, Nashville, for appellant.

Chiapella & Kirkpatrick, Memphis, for appellee.

GAILOR, Justice.

This appeal rises from a proceeding in criminal contempt in the Chancery Court of Shelby County. The alleged contempt was an incident of an adoption proceeding then pending in that Court. The petition for adoption was being heard under the provisions of Chapter 202, Public Acts of 1951. The young mother of the child, a girl 17 years old at the time of the hearing, had filed her verified, written consent and surrender

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