Collamore v. Learned
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two petitions to the Probate Court to revoke decrees of adoption of the respondents by John H. Collamore. The eases were heard in this court on appeals taken by the petitioners before Knowlton, J., who refused to admit certain evidence and to give certain rulings, and dismissed the petitions; and the petitioners alleged exceptions. The first named petitioner was a nephew and the second named was the only child of a deceased nephew of the adopter.
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Two petitions to the Probate Court to revoke decrees of adoption of the respondents by John H. Collamore. The eases were heard in this court on appeals taken by the petitioners before Knowlton, J., who refused to admit certain evidence and to give certain rulings, and dismissed the petitions; and the petitioners alleged exceptions. The first named petitioner was a nephew and the second named was the only child of a deceased nephew of the adopter. The respondents were the children of a brother of the adopter. The facts appear in the opinion and in a note thereto by the reporter.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
These are petitions to set aside decrees of adoption by one John H. Collamore of three persons, his nieces and nephew. At the time, Collamore was seventy, and the adopted children were respectively forty-three, thirty-nine, and twenty-five years old. At the trial of the case in this court, on appeal from a decree of the Probate Court dismissing the petition, the following rulings were asked and refused, and exceptions were taken.
First. “ It is not competent under the adoption law for a person in the senile age of life to adopt persons in the prime and vigor of life.” Such is not the law. Pub.…
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