People ex rel. Anonymous v. Anonymous

This is an application by relator, an unwed mother, for return of her infant child who is presently in the custody of the defendants.

In February, 1948, relator, a student at a college in the city of New York, finding herself pregnant, sought out the services of a woman doctor in Manhattan, to whom she gave an incorrect name. Although from a family consisting of a father and seven brothers and sisters, she did not inform any of them of her condition. The doctor, anxious to assist the relator, aided her in concealing the facts from her family.

On October 5,1948, the infant was born at a hospital…