IN RE ADOPTION OF CLARK

No. 53784.

183 N.W.2d 179 (1971)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF Stephen Walter CLARK, Dennis Perry Clark, Victor Brooks Clark, Paul David Clark, and Laura Clark.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scalise, Scism, Gentry & Brick, Des Moines, for appellant.

Jesse, Le Tourneau & Johnston, Des Moines, for appellee.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The question here is whether a step-mother's petition to adopt five children should be granted.

C. Walter Clark, Jr. and Margaret F. Clark were husband and wife. Mr. Clark is a teacher at Drake University. Within a space of six years, five children were born to them. The children ranged in age from three to nine years at the time the case was tried in May of 1969.

On the same faculty with Walter Clark was Truman Cross, who also...

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