In re Adoption of a Minor

PRETTYMAN, Associate Justice.

This case is here for the second time. The opinion in the first appeal is reported at 81 U.S.App.D.C.-, 155 F.2d 870. The child involved was born March 1, 1944, and on March 7, 1944, the mother signed a consent to the adoption. The father was in naval service in the Pacific. The proposed adopters took immediate custody of the child. The mother promptly repented her consent and attempted to withdraw it. She served notice to that effect and, when the petition for adoption was filed, she answered that the father had acknowledged paternity and that she had withdrawn…