In re the Adoption of Davis

Wingate, S.

From the viewpoint of this often crassly materialistic age, the present case might be considered of negligible importance for its determination will not result in the gain or loss of a single dollar. In its human aspect, however, it possesses transcendent interest, since it is a battle for a life with grim reality equal to any frankly capital case in the criminal annals of the State. In final result, the question which this court is called upon to decide is whether existing rules of law compel a direction that a delicate boy of eight years, who, for all but two months of his life,…