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IN RE ADOPTION OF A MINOR

No. 8665.

144 F.2d 644 (1944)

In re ADOPTION OF A MINOR.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided July 17, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Nathan M. Lubar, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Alvin L. Newmyer, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Miss Catherine McCloskey, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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

MILLER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court denying a petition for adoption of an illegitimate infant. The single issue of the case is one of law, whether a natural mother, who has freely and voluntarily given consent to the adoption of her illegitimate child, can, without cause, withdraw that consent and thus prevent the adoption when, as in the present case, the adoptive parents have accepted the child, paid the expenses of...

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