Legal Opinion
In re Anonymous
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided August 6, 1958PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
John D. Bennett, S.
No opinion lends itself more readily to quotations out of context than Matter of Bistany (239 N. Y. 19), a leading case on abandonment in adoption proceedings. The ingredients are present: apparently appropriate language, an opinion written for the Court of Appeals by Judge Cardozo, and an understandable misconception of the powers of the Court of Appeals as they existed in 1924, the date of the opinion. In that matter the Appellate Division below had unanimously reversed the County Court (121 Misc. 540) and “found as a fact that the parents had not abandoned the child ”…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Matter of BistanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1924
- Otten v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1896
- National Bank of Deposit v. . RogersNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- In re MacLeanNew York Surrogate's Court · 1919
- In re the Adoption of NorrisNew York Surrogate's Court · 1935
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3Cited by10 opinions
- In re the Adoption of George G. B.New York Surrogate's Court · 1974
- In re Vanesa FNew York Surrogate's Court · 1974
- In re the Adoption of Shannon Linda T.New York City Family Court · 1976
- In re AnonymousNew York Surrogate's Court · 1959
- In re the Adoption of " Anonymous "New York Surrogate's Court · 1972
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