KING v. SHANDROWSKI

[No. 9, September Term, 1958.]

218 Md. 38 (1958)

145 A.2d 281

KING ET UX. v. SHANDROWSKI

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 24, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Bagley and Ernest A. Loveless, Jr., with whom were Oscar R. Duley, Duley & DeBlasis and Loveless & Bagley on the brief, for the appellants.

Jerrold V. Powers, with whom were Sasscer, Clagett & Powers on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


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

The Circuit Court for Prince George's County denied the petition of Bernard Anthony King and Evelyn May King, his wife, (the Kings or adoptive parents), for the adoption and change of the surname of Judith Lynn Williams (Judith or adoptive child), dismissed the petition and awarded the custody of the adoptive child to Norma Shandrowski (the natural mother). The adoptive parents appealed.

The natural...

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