Nagy v. Williams

GORDON BENNETT, District Judge,

sitting for Mr. Chief Justice Hatfield, delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a final order of the district court denying, a petition for annulment of an adoption decree and, in the alternative, for a writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner was born January 21, 1954, and gave birth to the child involved in this litigation on June 18, 1970. On July 17, 1970, the district court decreed the adoption of the child by respondents, having found the child was abandoned by its natural parents. In June 1975, petitioner discovered her child had purportedly…