RETTEW ADOPTION CASE


428 Pa. 430 (1968)

Rettew Adoption Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 15, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Ferguson Musser, for appellants.

Glenvar E. Harman, with him James P. Coho, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, March 15, 1968:

LaVerne Donald Rettew and Mary Margaret Drennan were married on December 6, 1958, and to them was born, on November 26, 1959, a child whom they named Stephen Robert, the subject of this lawsuit.

In the early part of 1962, Mary Margaret manifested signs of emotional instability and she was hospitalized on March 16th of that year in the Embreeville State Hospital. She...

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