Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Chase
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 23, 1909PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
On April 23,1889, the judge of the Probate Court for the County of Essex made a decree after hearing, by which De Forest Woodruff Chase, son of her husband by a former wife, became the adopted son of Mrs. Chase. Mrs. Chase died on September 13,1905. A month later (on October 14, 1905,) a petition was filed by those who but for the adoption would have been her next of kin, to set aside the decree of adoption. On October 20, 1905, De Forest Woodruff Chase voluntarily accepted service. He gave his deposition on November 10, in the presence of the judge of probate who entered the original decree…
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