Shea v. Shea

This proceeding was commenced in the juvenile court on February 18, 1947 by the petition of William S. Shea and his wife Mexilia B. Shea, hereinafter called the petitioners, for the adoption of Henrietta Virginia Shea, child of William S. Shea by a former marriage. From a decree of the juvenile court granting the petition, the child, sometimes called the respondent, by her guardian and next friend Gwendolyn Boudreau, took an appeal to the superior court and claimed a jury trial. That appeal was heard in the superior court before a justice thereof sitting with a jury, and at the conclusion of…