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SHIELDS v. TARRANT COUNTY

No. 16334.

358 S.W.2d 241 (1962)

Evelyn Barber SHIELDS et vir, Appellants, v. TARRANT COUNTY, Texas, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

May 25, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whiteside & Baker, and John Whiteside, Fort Worth, for appellants.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., Tarrant County, and Gordon Gray, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, for appellee.

RENFRO, Justice.

On August 8, 1960, Kenneth Shults and Judy Shults were, along with four half sisters and brothers, adjudged to be dependent and neglected children and their custody awarded to Lynn Ross, Juvenile Probation Officer of Tarrant County.

On April 27, 1961, Mrs. Shields, mother of the Shults children, joined by her husband, filed a petition seeking to vacate the dependency judgment, and prayed for custody of the two above named children. From an...

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