Court Opinion

ID: 9586696
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:14:07.045312+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:47.976588
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Felton, Chief Judge,
dissenting. Code § 114-414 provides that “child” shall include legally adopted children and that “parent” shall include parents by adoption. The compensation law is based on dependency under legal obligation where presumptive dependency is not provided. Under the adoption law (Code, Ann., § 74-414), an adopted child bears the relation of child to the adopting parent and all legal obligations between *759the natural parents and the adopted children are destroyed. I cannot believe that under the provisions of the law the General Assembly could have intended that an adopted child would be conclusively presumed to be dependent on -his natural father and his adoptive father. The very opposite seems to me to be true. Macon, Dublin &c. R. Co. v. Porter, 195 Ga. 40, supra, seems to me to clearly indicate that if in that case there had been an adoptive father the ruling would have been different. This is certainly true in the plain terms of the concurring opinion by Justices Reid and Jenkins. I think the judgment should be reversed.
Judge Frankum concurs in this dissent.