VAN KLEEK v. STATE PUBLIC WELFARE COMMISSION


450 P.2d 549 (1969)

In the matter of the Adoption of Arlon Michael Schultz Aka Arlon Michael Schultze Aka Arlon Michael VAN KLEEK. Roy Van Kleek, Appellant, v. STATE PUBLIC WELFARE COMMISSION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Oregon, Department 2.

Decided February 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.M. Giovanini, Portland, argued the cause and filed a brief for appellant.

Kirk A. Mulder, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Robert Y. Thornton, Atty. Gen., Salem.

Before PERRY, C.J., and McALLISTER, GOODWIN, HOLMAN and HAMMOND, JJ.


HAMMOND, Justice pro tem.

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court dismissing a petition to adopt a six-and-one-half-year-old boy. The matter had been appealed from the district court, sitting in probate, after a decree of that court denying the petition to adopt.

The child was born out of wedlock and was placed by his mother with the petitioner and his third wife shortly after birth. Some effort was made by the petitioner and his then wife, referred...

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