Sipes v. Shaw

On March 24, 1944, Amos A. Shaw and Mary A. Shaw, his wife, acting jointly, filed a petition in the superior court for Okanogan county for the adoption of Donna Mae Sipes. The petition, filed in accordance with Laws of 1943, chapter 268, § 6 (Rem. Supp. 1943, § 1699-7 [P. P. C. § 354-13]), alleged that on March 20, 1944, a baby girl was born to Joan Sipes, an unmarried woman, the child being illegitimate and the father of the child being unknown; that the child’s name is Donna Mae Sipes. It is further alleged that Joan Sipes, the mother of the child, has in writing relinquished Donna Mae…