IN RE LaPORTE

Equity Nos. 3259, 3260.

236 A.2d 264 (1967)

In re Diane Marie LaPORTE. In re Deborah Ann LaPORTE.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

December 14, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oliver P. Crandall, Westerly, for petitioners.

Edward F. Malloy, Providence, for respondent.


OPINION

ROBERTS, Chief Justice.

These petitions for the adoption of two female children without the consent of the natural father, Donald A. LaPorte, hereinafter referred to as the respondent, were brought by James R. Doris and his wife, Mary L. Doris, natural mother of the two children, hereinafter referred to as the petitioners. After a hearing by a justice of the family court, the petitions were denied and dismissed, and from a decree to that effect entered...

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