IN RE ADOPTION OF DOE

No. 111.

56 S.E.2d 8 (1949)

231 N.C. 1

In re Adoption of DOE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 2, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. L. Carr, Lucas & Rand, Wilson, for petitioners appellees.

M. Butler Prescott, Raleigh, G. L. Parker, Wilson, for intervenors appellants.


WINBORNE, Justice.

The question of law raised by the appellants upon the facts of this case relate to, and is determined by the legal effect the intermarriage of the mother of the child, born out of wedlock, and the reputed father, has upon the status of the child as a proper subject for adoption in an adoption proceeding, then pending,—based upon consent of the mother in a manner provided by the statute. G.S. § 48-5. This exact question does not appear...

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