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IN RE DAVID

256 A.2d 583 (1969)

In re Minor Child DAVID.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

August 29, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin F. Stearns, Jr., Portland, for petitioner.

Arthur A. Peabody, Portland, for defendant.

Before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, MARDEN, DUFRESNE and WEATHERBEE, JJ.

WEATHERBEE, Justice.

This is a petition for the Writ of Habeas Corpus brought by the mother of an illegitimate child against the Executive Director of a licensed child-placing agency to whom she had surrendered her parental rights in her child so that the agency might place the child for adoption. A Single Justice in the Superior Court ruled that the surrender-release was invalid and that the best interests of the child required its return to the mother. The Defendant...

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