WILEY v. SPRATLAN

No. B-5707.

543 S.W.2d 349 (1976)

Jacquelyn Layne WILEY, Petitioner, v. Kelly SPRATLAN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied September 29, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Eldred Smith, Longview, for petitioner.

Curtis L. Owen, Dist. Atty., George M. Conner, III, Asst. Dist. Atty., L. Michael Thompson, Tyler, for respondent.


POPE, Justice.

The courts below ordered the termination of the parent-child relationship between Mrs. Jacquelyn Wiley and her four-year-old daughter. Tex.Civ.App., 529 S.W.2d 616. We reverse the judgments of the courts below and render judgment denying the termination.

Kelly Spratlan, as the Supervisor of Welfare of Smith County, instituted this termination suit against both the father and mother, but the father filed an...

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