BEST ADOPTION CASE


413 Pa. 253 (1964)

Best Adoption Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace A. Davenport, for appellants.

Charles W. Bowser, for appellee.

Before JONES, COHEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION PER CURIAM, January 7, 1964:

The maternal grandparents of the five year old female child of their deceased daughter petitioned the Orphans' Court of Montgomery County for her adoption, alleging that the natural father had abandoned his daughter. The father appeared and opposed the adoption. The court below found that the child's father did not abandon her, refused to decree adoption, dismissed the petition, and awarded custody to the father.

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