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HOUSTON v. BRACKETT

Gen. No. 11,676.

38 Ill. App.2d 463 (1963)

187 N.E.2d 545

Marshall Houston and Vera Houston, Petitioners-Appellees, v. Clyde Brackett, Cevil Dewain Brackett and Virginia Dollett Brackett, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District, First Division.

Rehearing denied February 6, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barrick & Jackson, of Rockford (Robert W. Gosdick and Melvin L. Schlueter, of counsel), for appellant.

Pedderson, Menzimer & Conde, of Rockford (Dale F. Conde, of counsel), for appellees.

McNEAL, P.J.

Marshall Houston and Vera Houston filed a petition for adoption of Cevil and Virginia Brackett, her children by a former marriage. Petitioners alleged that the children's father, Clyde Brackett, was an unfit person by reason of abandonment and desertion for more than three months. The father filed an answer denying that he was unfit, and a demand for a jury trial. The County Court of Winnebago County denied the demand for trial by jury and the trial proceeded...

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