HUTSON v. HAGGARD

No. 7309.

475 S.W.2d 330 (1971)

Franklin DeWayne HUTSON, Appellant, v. Bill C. HAGGARD et ux., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

December 30, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxine T. McConnell & Walter W. Steele, Jr. Legal Clinic, SMU School of Law, Dallas, for appellant.

Coleman & O'Brien, O. Shelton Coleman, Garland, for appellees.


KEITH, Justice.

The natural father appeals from the judgment of the Juvenile Court of Dallas County granting a petition for the adoption of his child without his consent. Appellant and Judith Lynn Haggard (now the wife of Bill C. Haggard, petitioner in the court below and appellee here) were married in June 1966, and the minor child involved in this proceeding, Melissa Ann Hutson, was born in August of 1967. Appellant and the child's mother were divorced in June 1968...

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