Legal Opinion
Petition of the New England Home for Little Wanderers
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 5, 1975Published
1Opinion of the Court
367 Mass. 631 (1975)
328 N.E.2d 854
PETITION OF THE NEW ENGLAND HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS TO DISPENSE WITH CONSENT TO ADOPTION.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.
January 6, 1975.
May 5, 1975.
Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.
Benjamin D. Lewis for the respondent.
Robert C. Silver for the petitioner.
KAPLAN, J.
The New England Home for Little Wanderers (Home), which had had custody of the unmarried mother's child from about the time of its birth ten months previously, filed a petition in the Probate Court for Suffolk County on April 23, 1973, to…
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