County of Becker v. County of Hennepin

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment determining that a minor child, bom in Otter Tail County, has settlement for poor-relief purposes in Becker County.

The primary issue is whether the act of an unwed mother in voluntarily surrendering at the time of birth the possession, care, and custody of her child to others — for the purpose of providing the child with a new parental relationship as by adoption — thereby emancipates the child to the extent that the child thenceforth retains the poor-relief settlement derived at birth from the mother irrespective of any subsequent change in the legal…