· 2/9/1953
Wailes v. Curators of Central College
Citations
- 254 S.W.2d 645
- 363 Mo. 932
- 37 A.L.R. 2d 326
- 1953 Mo. LEXIS 532
How courts have described this case
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- “[i]t is no part of the public policy of the state that adoption should operate as an instrumentality for dual inheritance”
- “[i]t is no part of the public policy of the state that adoption should operate as an instrumentality for dual inheritance”
- “the adopted child is taken out of the blood stream of its natural parents and placed, by the operation of law, in the blood stream of its adopting parents”
- “the adopted child is taken out of the blood stream of its natural parents and placed, by the operation of law, in the blood stream of its adopting parents”
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Judges: Westtiues, Hyde
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