WATSON APPEAL


450 Pa. 579 (1973)

Watson Appeal.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grace C. Kennedy, for appellant.

Peter M. Mattoon, with him Charles J. Peischl, and Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, March 16, 1973:

On December 12, 1968, appellant gave birth to Stephanie Watson at the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. Appellant was then an unmarried fourteen-year-old tenth grade student at the Gratz Neighborhood High School. The acknowledged father, who was sixteen years old on the date of the infant's birth, is Leon Van Randolph, Jr.

On December 23, 1968, appellant relinquished custody of her infant daughter to...

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