Noone Adoption Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Chidsey,

This is an adoption proceeding instituted on May 18, 1953 by Dayton E. Hixon and Angelina M. Hixon, his wife, under the Act of April 4, 1925, P. L. 127, as amended by the Act of June 30, 1947, P. L. 1180, in which the petitioners sought to adopt Gary Anthony Noone, the minor male child of Josephine Noone and Walter E. Noone. The court below entered a final decree granting the adoption. Josephine Noone, the child’s mother, appeals therefrom.

The minor child after his birth at the Easton Hospital on August 12, 1952 was released to the custody of appellant who…