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IN RE WELLS

No. 15526.

281 F.2d 68 (1960)

In the Matter of Virginia Coen WELLS.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Abraham Dobkin, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for Commissioners of District of Columbia.

Before PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge, PHILLIPS, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, and BASTIAN, Circuit Judge.

BASTIAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court denying a motion to order search of records in an adoption proceeding. To the motion, appellant attached two affidavits, her own and that of her counsel. The affidavits allege in substance that on August 17, 1954, when she was sixteen years of age, appellant gave birth to a child out of wedlock. She had spent the final seven months of her pregnancy as an involuntary resident of the Florence...

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