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IN RE DE WALT'S ADOPTION

No. 290.

101 So.2d 915 (1958)

In re Adoption of Phyllis Irene DE WALT, a Minor. Cleopatra Helen DE WALT, Appellant, v. Lawrence DE WALT and Clara DeWalt, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shutts, Bowen, Simmons, Prevatt & Julian, John Cotton Howell, Wm. P. Simmons, Jr., Miami, for appellant.

Warren Goodrich, Jerry Hussy, Bradenton, for appellees.

ALLEN, Acting Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a final decree of adoption, dated February 25, 1957, which granted the petition of Lawrence DeWalt and Clara DeWalt for adoption of the minor daughter of their deceased son. The child's mother, Cleopatra Helen DeWalt, contested the adoption.

The record discloses that the appellant, Cleopatra Helen DeWalt, and Lawrence Philip DeWalt, the parents of Phyllis Irene DeWalt, a nine year old child who was the subject...

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