State, In re Adoption of Spear

A petition was filed by the exceptants in this case in the Probate Court for the County of Knox for the adoption of Timothy Allan Spear, who was the illegitimate infant child of their daughter, Arlene T. Spear. The petition was denied by the Judge of Probate on July 17, 1951. The petitioners on July 31, 1951 appealed to the Superior Court for said County of Knox, sitting as the Supreme Court of Probate, at the November Term, 1951. Such appeal was fully heard by the Supreme Court of Probate. The decision granting such appeal and remanding the case to the Probate Court for action in accordance…