In Re McTaggart

A rehearing * having been granted in this case, the cause has been argued anew with new issues and new questions of law presented.

A young married woman found herself in the desperate situation of giving birth to a child out of wedlock and instituted proceedings with the Probate Court of Franklin County pursuant to which the child was placed with a married couple within a day or two of birth with adoption in mind. The mother, within a week or two thereafter, had a change of heart in the matter. She went to the referee of the Probate Court to report that she wanted her baby back, and then filed…