In re Courtright

In the year 1907 Margaret Fitzpatrick, an infant about two years of age, was taken by her mother, with the approval of her father, to and placed in the *690House of Providence, an incorporated institution under the care and management of the Sisters of Charity of the Catholic Church in Detroit. Her father testified that it was the intention of himself and wife to abandon the child to the institution. In the month of January, 1909, the petitioner, Frank Courtright, and his wife, Laura Court-right, obtained the child from the House of Providence with the intention of adoption, but without any…