IN RE RYALS

No. 42698.

92 So.2d 581 (1957)

231 La. 683

In re Neal B. RYALS and Beedie Wells Ryals for Adoption of James Nathan WELLS, Minor.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dewitt T. Methvin, Jr., Alexandria, for appellant.

F. Jean Pharis, Pineville, for appellees.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree of adoption granting the petition of Neal B. Ryals and Mrs. Beedie Wells Ryals for the adoption of the minor child James Nathan Wells. The appeal is by Jerry Don Wells, brother of the minor, whose opposition to the adoption was dismissed.

James Nathan Wells, the son of Jesse Wells and Mrs. Ruby Wells, was born on April 21, 1951, a little over four months after the death of his father. He lived with...

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