Whitton v. Scott

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining under prior version of law that natural parents had right to de novo appeal in county court from adoption decree issued by probate court
• \An appeal from a lower to a higher court carries up the whole case for a retrial upon all matters and features entering into and affecting the final decision and order to be made therein.\
• “An appeal from a lower to a higher court carries up the whole case for a retrial upon all matters and features entering into and affecting the final decision and order to be made therein.”
• superior court not “limited to” determining if the probate court erred
• describing appeal procedure prior to unification of court system

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).