SMITH v. CONSUL GENERAL OF SPAIN

No. 5878.

110 N.H. 62 (1969)

ALFRED R. SMITH & a. v. CONSUL GENERAL OF SPAIN & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Flynn, Powell & McGuirk and Raymond P. Blanchard (Mr. Blanchard orally), for the plaintiffs.

Perkins, Holland & Donovan and William H. M. Beckett (Mr. Beckett orally), for the defendant, Maria Luisa Gonzalez y Gonzalez.


KENISON, C. J.

The question reserved and transferred by the Superior Court (Morris, J.) without ruling is whether a probate court has authority to reopen a decree of adoption. The defendant (Maria) filed in the probate court for Rockingham County a petition to reopen the proceeding in which the probate court had decreed her son, Juan Carlos Gonzalez y Gonzalez, who was born out of wedlock in Madrid, Spain, to be the adopted son of the plaintiffs. The defendant...

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