IN RE ADOPTION AND CUSTODY OF UNDERWOOD

No. 10977.

107 S.E.2d 608 (1959)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION AND CUSTODY OF Karen Dawn UNDERWOOD.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided March 31, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Bernard Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harold A. Bangert, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty Gen., for appellant.

William V. McNemar, Jr., Pineville, for appellees.


BROWNING, Judge.

An appeal and supersedeas was granted by this Court on March 31, 1958, upon application by the West Virginia Department of Public Assistance, hereinafter referred to as the "Department", to a decree of the Circuit Court of Wyoming County, entered October 5, 1957, whereby a previous order of that court, entered July 30, 1956, committing an infant, Karen Dawn Underwood, to the permanent care, custody and...

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