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SNYDER ADOPTION CASE

403 Pa. 343 (1961)

Snyder Adoption Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 17, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Routman, with him Harvey E. Moore, and Routman, Moore & Goldstone, for appellant.

Albert E. Acker, with him John J. Regule, and Wiesen, Cusick, Madden, Joyce, Acker and McKay, for appellees.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, April 17, 1961:

This is an adoption case. The subject of it is Dale Lee Snyder, age nine years and nine months when the petition to adopt him was filed by his widowed stepmother in Mercer County on July 26, 1960. There is an answer to the petition filed by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Beach, who live in Ohio, she a half-sister to Dale; it alleges their willingness to adopt the boy and challenges the petitioner's fitness.

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