HENDRICKS v. CURRY

Nos. 16610, 16611.

389 S.W.2d 181 (1965)

Betty HENDRICKS et vir, Appellants, v. Alton B. CURRY et ux., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied April 16, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coleman & Whitten, and Royce Whitten, Denton, for appellants.

G. H. Kelsoe, Jr., Dallas, for appellees.


MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Presented are two separate appeals from judgments of the District Court of Denton County, Texas. One judgment constituted an adjudication that a certain infant was a "dependent child"; the other constituted an adjudication decreeing an adoption of the same infant by "adoptive parents". Each adjudication was against the contentions and over the protests of the natural mother of the child, coupled with a denial to her of that custody for which...

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