WATSON v. DOCKETT

[No. 303, September Term, 1961.]

229 Md. 63 (1962)

181 A.2d 461

WATSON ET UX. v. DOCKETT ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Bagley and John W. Mitchell, for appellants.

Harry L. Durity, for appellees.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and PRESCOTT, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


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

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland, awarding the appellees, James L. Dockett and Henrietta Dockett, his wife, the adoption of an infant child, Iola Denise Moore, hereinafter referred to as Denise, over the objection of the child's mother, Mildred M. Watson, one of the appellants.

Denise was born October 13, 1958, out of wedlock, in a Philadelphia hospital...

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