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SIEBERT v. BENSON

No. 5-4348.

422 S.W.2d 683 (1968)

243 Ark. 843

George SIEBERT et ux., Appellants, v. Josephine BENSON, Next Friend of Mark Edward Gann, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

January 15, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William I Purifoy, Jonesboro, and C. T. Bennett, Batesville, for appellants.

W. B. Howard and Jack Segars, Jonesboro, for appellee.

BROWN, Justice.

We are here concerned with the custody of a four-year-old boy, Mark Edward Gann. The Sieberts, appellants here, obtained an interlocutory order of adoption. Mark's mother (who had abandoned the child at birth) entered her appearance in that proceeding and gave her consent. However, Josephine Benson, appellee, with whom Mark had resided continuously since birth, was not a party to the proceeding. A few weeks after the adoption Mrs. Benson intervened...

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