Barney v. Hutchinson

Citations

• 25 N.M. 82
• 177 P. 890

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>A contract to adopt a child according to existing statutory law is valid in equity, and where everything required to be done has been performed, except taking the necessary statutory steps to perfect legal adoption, equity will consider that done which ought to have been done, and decree specific performance of the contract, to the end that the foster child shall be entitled to the rights of inheritance prescribed by statute.</p>