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IN TIIE DISZ'RIGT COURT OF APPEAL OF THB STATE OF FLORIDA
FOUR7'll DISTRICT ~ JANUARY TERM 1973
In re Adoption of minor child by )
GEORGE B. H. STALLINGS and ) CASE NO. 72-341. ~
CONSUELO M. STALLINCS, hie ) .
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Opinion filed June 8, 1973.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for St.
Lucie County; C. Pfeiffer Trowbridge,
judge. FIlEO AN~ t;ECORDED
ST. lUC1E GOUNTY FtA. ~
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CIERK C:'•CJ:T COURT
David Goldman of Law Offices of David R~~;n~n ;F: ~~r~____~ ;
Goldman, Miami, for Appellant-Ragnar G. '
Stallings. JUL I ~ ~ ~ 28 aH'~3 .
Errol S. Willes of Willes Bittan & Willes, 2~594
Fort Fierce, for Appellees-George B. H.
Stallings et ux. ~
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The adoption of a fourteen (now sixteen) year`old female is at
issue. The protagonists are on the one hand the natural father and on the ~
othe~r the child's paternal grandparenta. T~e grandparents prevailed. The
natural father appeals. We affirm.
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The minor has lived with the grandparents since she was three ;
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WALDEN, OWEN, JJ. , and DOWNEY, JAMES C. , Associate Judge, concur. 4
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