HARTER v. STATE

No. 52256.

149 N.W.2d 827 (1967)

The State of Iowa, ex rel. Carl B. Parks, Chief Probation Officer. Joann Ford HARTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellee. In the Interest of Tammy Lynn FORD, Minor.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 4, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse, LeTourneau & Johnston, Des Moines, for appellant.

Ray A. Fenton, Polk County Atty., and Michael E. Hansen, Asst. County Atty., for appellee.


STUART, Justice.

The Polk County juvenile authorities instituted these proceedings under Chapter 232, Code of Iowa as amended by the Sixty-first General Assembly seeking to sever and terminate the parent-child relationship between Joann Ford Harter and Tammy Lynn Ford, her daughter. The juvenile court found Mrs. Harter was unfit to retain the custody of her child because of her low mentality, mistreatment of the child and her immoral conduct. The parent-child relationship...

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