IN RE ADOPTION OF WALPOLE

Gen. No. 10,010.

5 Ill. App.2d 362 (1955)

125 N.E.2d 645

In the Matter of Adoption of Lynda Lou Walpole. Clyde Songer and Margaret Songer, Petitioners-Appellees, v. Margaret Songer et al., Defendants. Jesse Walpole, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Released for publication April 18, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.R. Ivens, and Francis R. Wiley, both of Decatur, for appellant.

No brief filed for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE REYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

This cause comes to this court on appeal from the county court of Macon county. Clyde Songer, the stepfather, and Margaret Songer, the mother of Lynda Lou Walpole, a minor child, brought their petition to adopt Lynda Lou against Jesse Walpole, the father. The minor child and the mother, Margaret Songer, were named defendants to comply with the statutes in such case, but the dispute is over the refusal of the...

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