Davey v. Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions

Lura Katherine Davey, adopting mother, appeals from an order granting the motion of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions, objector, for a new trial after an order which granted Mrs. Davey’s petition to adopt a minor child. The bureau prosecutes a cross-appeal from the order of adoption.1 The judge who granted the new trial (and who was not the judge who heard the testimony and ordered the adoption) did so on the ground that the original trial judge erred in law by determining that the natural mother met the statutory requirements as to consent to adoption2 by *373her formal consent to…