WISCHMANN ADOPTION CASE


428 Pa. 327 (1968)

Wischmann Adoption Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 9, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Z. Goldberg, with him Markel, Markel, Levenson & Fisher, for appellants.

Harry Bowytz, with him Bowytz & Bowytz, for appellees.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, January 9, 1968:

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Orphans' Court of Allegheny County granting a petition for the adoption of a child over the objection of the natural parents, and dismissing with prejudice the parents' petition for habeas corpus, seeking custody.

In approving the adoption, the hearing judge specifically found that the parents had abandoned the child for a period...

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