IN RE INTEREST OF WITHERSPOON

No. 43433.

305 N.W.2d 644 (1981)

208 Neb. 755

In re Interest of WITHERSPOON. STATE of Nebraska, Appellee, v. James C. SMITH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

May 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick H. McDonnell, Omaha, for appellant.

Donald L. Knowles, Douglas County Atty., and Marjorie A. Records, Deputy County Atty., Omaha, for appellee.

Heard before KRIVOSHA, C. J., and BOSLAUGH, McCOWN, BRODKEY, WHITE, and HASTINGS, JJ.


McCOWN, Justice.

This is a proceeding to terminate the parental rights of an unmarried father. The District Court terminated the father's parental rights and the father has appealed.

James Witherspoon was born December 18, 1976. His mother and his father, the appellant here, were unmarried. The parents lived together for some undisclosed period of time after the birth of the child, but the relationship was a stormy one, and by sometime early in 1978 they were...

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