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IN RE AMORELLO

No. 42476.

85 So.2d 883 (1956)

229 La. 304

In re Anthony AMORELLO and Mrs. Elizabeth L. Amorello Applying for Adoption of Ophelia Horton.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 20, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Minos Simon, Lafayette, Robert W. Williams, Jr., Baton Rouge, for petitioners-appellants.

Horace Pepper, Baton Rouge, for Department of Public Welfare.

Kantrow, Spaht, West & Kleinpeter, Baton Rouge, for respondent-appellee.

PONDER, Justice.

The plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment denying their demand to revoke an interlocutory decree of adoption granted in favor of the defendants.

Ophelia Horton was born out of wedlock on June 28, 1950, to Ophelia Pourceau, who at the time was living with L. A. Horton. The mother of the child, Ophelia Pourceau, died a short time after her birth and her natural father, L. A. Horton, formally surrendered the child to the State Department of...

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