BARNES v. PAANAKKER

Nos. 7337, 7338.

111 F.2d 193 (1940)

BARNES et al. v. PAANAKKER (two cases).

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 11, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Woodruff Weaver, of Washington, D. C., and Wm. A. Gray, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Geo. W. Dalzell, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and VINSON, Associate Justices.


VINSON, Associate Justice.

The appellants, Theodore Barnes and his wife, Katherine Kolb Barnes, were petitioners in the District Court for the adoption of two male infants, Jean Jacques Paanakker and Peter Anthony Paanakker, children of Mrs. Barnes and Matthew B. A. Paanakker, her former husband, the appellee. Petitions were denied in each instance, from which orders of the District Court a consolidated appeal is here prosecuted.

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