SURRENDER OF MINOR CHILDREN


344 Mass. 230 (1962)

181 N.E.2d 836

SURRENDER OF MINOR CHILDREN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

April 26, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Pokross, (Edward A. Saxe with him,) for the petitioner.

Michael J. Donohue, for the respondent.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & KIRK, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

The mother, who had never married, on April 4, 1960, executed four documents, each purporting to "surrender ... to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children [the Society] ..., for the purpose of adoption," the minor child of the mother named therein, and to "give ... [the mother's] consent irrevocably to any adoption proceedings approved by the said charitable institution." The mother...

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