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· 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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