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COOPER v. HINRICHS

Gen. No. 10,878.

8 Ill. App.2d 144 (1955)

130 N.E.2d 678

Dwayne Cooper and Iva Cooper, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Joan Hinrichs et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Catholic Charities of Diocese of Rockford, an Illinois Corporation, Intervening Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Released for publication December 28, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Freek, of Belvidere, and Pedderson, Menzimer, Carl & Conde, of Rockford, for appellants; L.W. Menzimer, and Dale F. Conde, both of Rockford, of counsel.

Russell J. Goldman, and Harold Stern, both of Rockford, for appellees; Russell J. Goldman, and Harold Stern, both of Rockford, of counsel; Raphael E. Yalden, of Rockford, for Catholic Charities of Diocese of Rockford.

JUSTICE EOVALDI delivered the opinion of the court.

Petitioners sought to adopt the twin daughters of the defendant, Joan Hinrichs, who had permitted them shortly after their births to be declared dependent children by the County Court of Boone County. The court appointed Warren B. Tanner, probation officer of said county, legal guardian of the children and he placed them first in the St. Vincent's Home for Children at Freeport, Illinois, a Catholic institution, and...

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