IN RE ADOPTION OF LEWIS

No. AA-388.

340 So.2d 126 (1976)

In re the ADOPTION OF Eric Tyrone LEWIS, a Minor Child. Daniel E. Lewis, Appellant, v. Malcom CURRIE and Annie Currie, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 15, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Everett Boyd, Wilfred C. Varn of Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom & Kitchen, Tallahassee, for appellant.

J. LaDon Dewrell of Dewrell & Kessler, Fort Walton Beach, for appellees.


BOYER, Chief Judge.

The trial court has entered a final judgment ordering the adoption of Eric Tyrone Lewis (age five) by appellees, the maternal grandparents of the child. Appellant, the child's natural father, appeals the order of adoption, claiming that the trial court erred in finding that appellant had abandoned the child, and in ruling that the court was bound by a determination in a prior habeas corpus proceeding involving the child that the best interest of...

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