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LOCKEY v. BENNETT

35018, 35019.

244 Ga. 339 (1979)

260 S.E.2d 56

LOCKEY v. BENNETT et al. LOCKEY et al. v. BENNETT et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Hopkins Kidd, for appellants.

T. Henry Clarke, IV, for appellees.

JORDAN, Justice.

These two appeals challenge the validity of an adoption of a ten-month-old girl by her paternal grandparents. The appellants are her maternal grandparents.

Before the child was born, the natural parents, both being very young, had considered the possibility of the paternal grandparents adopting her. Instead, they tried to care for the child which resulted in her becoming very ill. The DeKalb County Juvenile Court then placed the child in the...

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