LOGAN v. COUP

[No. 225, September Term, 1964.]

238 Md. 253 (1965)

208 A.2d 694

LOGAN v. COUP

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 2, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Comber, 3rd, with whom were Wm. Pepper Constable and Kenneth A. Wilcox on the brief, for appellant.

William B. Calvert for appellee.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER and BARNES, JJ.


PRESCOTT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In February of 1964, Lee Roy Coup, Jr., filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Cecil County seeking to adopt his stepson, John E. Logan II. His wife, the child's natural mother, joined in the petition. The petition alleged that the child's father, John E. Logan, had orally consented to the adoption, and had abandoned his parental rights by failure to support, visit or inquire

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