CLARK v. HOLLAND

8 Div. 115.

150 So.2d 702 (1963)

Edna Darlene CLARK et al. v. Richard HOLLAND et ux.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Mary Lee Stapp and Julia H. Griswold, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.

Thos. C. Pettus, Moulton, for appellees.


MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a final decree of the circuit court in a habeas corpus proceeding in which the custody of a minor child, Edna Darlene Clark, was awarded to the adoptive parents, Richard and Marjorie Holland, the appellees here and respondents below.

The original petitioner in the instant proceeding was the child, suing by next friend, Frances Smith, as agent of the Lawrence County Department of Pensions and Security. The petition was...

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