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BUTLER v. WHITT ET AL.

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230 S.C. 279 (1956)

95 S.E.2d 496

MRS. BETTY BUTLER of the Department of Public Welfare, Respondent, v. MRS. MAGARET WHITT, Carolyn Whitt, Infant under Fourteen Years of Age, CLYDE E. JARRETT and MRS. CLYDE E. JARRETT, Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

November 28, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.K. Leonard, Esq., of Spartanburg, for Appellants.

Messrs. T.C. Callison, Attorney General, and Daniel R. McLeod, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, for Respondent.

November 28, 1956.

OXNER, Justice.

This controversy relates to the custody of Carolyn Whitt, who is now approximately eight year of age.

On June 9, 1952, Mrs. Betty Butler, a case worker in the Department of Public Welfare, filed a petition in the Children's Court of Spartanburg County in which she alleged that the above minor had been given by her mother to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Jarrett who had turned her...

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