Wilson v. Barnet

Otis, Justice.

This is an appeal by a natural father from an adjudication granting foster parents the right to adopt his two infant daughters. The issue is whether the evidence supports a finding that the father is unfit and not entitled to withhold consent.

In January 1959, when 18 years of age, David Barnet, Jr., left college and joined the Navy in order to support his future wife, then pregnant, whom he married on April 11, 1959. A daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was bom August 28, 1959. After completing boot camp and receiving medical training, Barnet was assigned to a Navy hospital in…