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ADOPTION OF PIOR

Docket No. S.F. 19046.

43 Cal.2d 472 (1954)

274 P.2d 637

Adoption of DONNA LYNN PIOR, a Minor. RALPH BENNETT et al., Appellants, v. DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE OF THE COUNTY OF FRESNO, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 15, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Moradian for Appellants.

Elsie M. Farris and Elizabeth Cochran as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Robert M. Wash, County Counsel (Fresno), John E. Loomis and Maurice E. Smith, Assistant County Counsel, for Respondent.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Richard L. Mayers, Deputy Attorney General, Clock, Waestman & Clock, Loeb & Loeb, Edward W. Sheridan and Herman F. Selvin as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

On September 5, 1951, Ralph and Mary Bennett filed a petition to adopt Donna Lynn Pior, a 4-year-old niece of Mary Bennett. The petition alleged that the child's mother, sister of Mary Bennett, was killed in an accident in April, 1951, that the child's father was divorced from his wife and was living in New Mexico, and that he had given his consent to the adoption. The matter was referred to the Department of...

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