IN RE DETERMINING SETTLEMENT FOR POOR-RELIEF PURPOSES OF SONNENBERG

No. 37,804.

256 Minn. 571 (1959)

99 N.W. (2d) 444

IN RE DETERMINING SETTLEMENT FOR POOR-RELIEF PURPOSES OF DANIEL KEITH SONNENBERG. COUNTY OF BECKER v. COUNTY OF HENNEPIN AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sigwel Wood, for appellant.

M.J. Daly, for respondent Hobart Township.

Owen V. Thompson, for respondent Otter Tail County.

George M. Scott, County Attorney, and John K. Harvey, Assistant County Attorney, for respondent Hennepin County.


MATSON, JUSTICE.

Appeal from a judgment determining that a minor child, born in Otter Tail County, has settlement for poor-relief purposes in Becker County.

The primary issue is whether the act of an unwed mother in voluntarily surrendering at the time of birth the possession, care, and custody of her child to others — for the purpose of providing the child with a new parental relationship as by adoption — thereby emancipates the child to the...

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