STOTLER v. LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF IOWA

No. 56275.

209 N.W.2d 121 (1973)

Debra L. STOTLER, a minor by Barbara Jean Stotler, mother and next friend, Appellees, v. LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF IOWA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 3, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson, Throckmorton, Parker, Mannheimer & Raife, by Robert E. Mannheimer, Paul R. Tyler, and F. Richard Lyford, Des Moines, for appellant.

Arthur K. Anderson, Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered en banc.


RAWLINGS, Justice.

By equity action plaintiff unwed mother seeks judicial invalidation of a written agreement by which she released her infant child to defendant agency for adoptive placement. Defendant appeals from decree granting relief sought. We reverse.

About July 15, 1972, plaintiff, Debra L. Stotler (Debra) and her mother, Barbara Stotler (Mrs. Stotler), appeared at the Des Moines office of defendant, Lutheran Social Service of Iowa, a licensed child...

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