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STATE IN INTEREST OF PIERCE

No. 8282.

349 So.2d 379 (1977)

STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of Marcy Lynn PIERCE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 9, 1977.

Writ Refused November 4, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Loyola Law School Clinic, Arthur A. Lemann, III, Supervising Atty., New Orleans, John M. Standridge and Kim A. Gandy, Student Practitioners, for respondent-appellant.

Gillespie & Jones, George L. Gillespie, Jr., Lyman L. Jones, Jr., Metairie, for petitioners-appellees.

Before REDMANN, STOULIG and MORIAL, JJ.

MORIAL, Judge.

A petition was filed by the State of Louisiana in the interest of Marcy Lynn Pierce, a minor, seeking to have the child declared abandoned pursuant to LSA-R.S. 9:403. After a hearing, the trial judge found the child to have been abandoned by her mother, Mrs. Jo Ann Carline Pierce, a/k/a Jo Ann Harden, and decreed that Marcy Lynn Pierce no longer subject to her parental authority. Plaintiff appeals from the judgment.

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