HANEY v. KNIGHT

[No. 82, October Term, 1950.]

197 Md. 212 (1951)

78 A.2d 643

HANEY ET UX. v. KNIGHT

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 9, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Rouse, Jr. and C. Osborne Duvall, with whom were Rouse & Morton, on the brief, for appellants.

R. Tilghman Brice, III, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J. and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.


HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in equity, denying a petition for the adoption of an infant and awarding custody of the child to its natural mother.

Helen Knight, a resident of Greene County, Virginia, gave birth to an illegitimate child on March 12, 1949. She was then eighteen years of age, and the father of the child had married another girl. She was one of a family...

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