SCRIVENS v. ELIZABETH LUND HOME

No. 87-80.

421 A.2d 1276 (1980)

Linda SCRIVENS v. ELIZABETH LUND HOME.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

September 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blodgett & McCarren, Burlington, for plaintiff.

Michael B. Clapp of Dinse, Allen & Erdmann, Burlington, for defendant.

Before BARNEY, C. J., and DALEY, LARROW, BILLINGS and HILL, JJ.


HILL, Justice.

This case comes before us on appeal from a denial of habeas corpus relief by the lower court. The procedures used by the Chittenden Probate Court charged with the administration of adoption proceedings are called into question.

Linda Scrivens, an adult, is the mother of an illegitimate child. She relinquished the child to the defendant, a properly licensed child placing agency, pursuant to 15 V.S.A. § 432. She now alleges the nullity of...

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