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ADOPTION OF BARNETT

Docket No. L.A. 25455.

54 Cal.2d 370 (1960)

354 P.2d 18

6 Cal. Rptr. 562

Adoption of MICHAEL ROY BARNETT, a Minor. LURA KATHERINE DAVEY, Petitioner and Appellant, v. LOS ANGELES COUNTY BUREAU OF ADOPTIONS, Objector and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 1, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.H. Phillips for Petitioner and Appellant.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, and Jean Louise Waller, Deputy County Counsel, for Objector and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and Richard L. Mayers, Deputy Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Objector and Appellant.

SCHAUER, J.

Lura Katherine Davey, adopting mother, appeals from an order granting the motion of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions, objector, for a new trial after an order which granted Mrs. Davey's petition to adopt a minor child. The bureau prosecutes a cross-appeal from the order of adoption.1 The judge who granted the new trial (and who was not the judge who heard the testimony and ordered the adoption) did so on the ground...

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