Lippy v. Breidenstein

When the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Jenifer and Haile, JJ.) decreed the seventh child of a natural father to be the legally adopted child of the foster parents, the natural father appealed to this Court. The natural father is Irvin R. Lippy. The foster parents are August Breidenstein and Virginia Breidenstein, his wife. And the adoptive child is Steven Lewis Lippy.

Within a sixteen-year period the natural father was married three times and begat nine children. All but two of them were born out of wedlock. Subsequently, the natural father consented to the adoption of the two children…