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IN RE HIGGINS

No. 44868.

118 So.2d 876 (1960)

239 La. 431

In re Patricia Jo HIGGINS, Abandonment.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 21, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bullock & Bullock, Shreveport, for appellant.

Horace G. Pepper, Lucas S. Conner, Jr., Baton Rouge, Edwin A. Smith, Jr. New Orleans, for appellee.

HAMITER, Justice.

In this cause the appellant, Mrs. Jo Ann Higgins, seeks to have reversed a judgment of the Juvenile Court of Caddo Parish which declared and decreed her daughter, Patricia Jo Higgins, to be an abandoned child within the meaning and purview of LRS 9:401 to 9:407.

The proceedings involving the charged abandonment, initiated and conducted by the Louisiana Department of Public Welfare, were carried on contradictorily in the Juvenile Court with...

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