GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.
In this adoption proceeding the probate court granted the petition of the appellee, Doreen Meekins, to adopt her ten-year-old stepson, Kenneth Ray Meekins, and also granted visitation privileges to the appellants, Haskell and Odell Brown, who are the child's maternal grandparents, their daughter (the child's mother) having died in 1978. The grandparents appeal, arguing that the court had no jurisdiction to enter the adoption decree. The...
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