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WATKINS v. DUDGEON

No. CA 80-171.

606 S.W.2d 78 (1980)

Doyle WATKINS, et ux., Appellants, v. Rickey Eugene DUDGEON, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

October 1, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Yeargan, Glenwood, William G. Wright and Don P. Chaney, Arkadelphia, for appellants.

No brief filed for appellee.

PILKINTON, Judge.

This is an adoption case. Appellee is the father of Russell Eugene Dudgeon, the minor child involved. Appellants are not related to the child by blood but have cared for Russell practically all of his life. Appellants filed this suit in an effort to adopt the child, and the father has resisted. The probate court found that although appellants were certainly good parents and qualified to rear the child, the father was also a fit and proper person...

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