IN RE BOURQUE

No. 3321.

245 So.2d 525 (1971)

In re Ophelias Joseph BOURQUE and Betty Lou Bourque, Applying for Adoption. Horace R. SPELL and Brenda Mallett Spell, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ophelias Joseph BOURQUE and Betty Lou Bourque, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

March 10, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Marcantel, Jennings, and Emile Carmouche, Crowley, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Payton R. Covington, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee.

Martin Petitjean, II, Rayne, for respondent.

Before HOOD, CULPEPPER and DOMENGEAUX, JJ.


HOOD, Judge.

Mr. and Mrs. Ophelias Joseph Bourque instituted this adoption proceeding originally on April 28, 1970, seeking to adopt two young children, Yolanda Kim Mallett and Brendall Louis Mallett. Pursuant to the prayer contained in their original petition, an interlocutory decree of adoption was rendered by the trial court on May 18, 1970, granting to Mr. and Mrs. Bourque the temporary custody of those two children...

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