List Adoption Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lawrence County which vacated a decree of adoption of a minor child entered by the same court in 1961.

William Dale List (the child), was legitimately born March 2,1953, in the city of New Castle, Lawrence County, his parents being Harry N. List (natural father), and Joanne List (natural mother). On March 11, 1955, the natural parents of the child were divorced and the child thereafter lived for the most part with his mother until the summer of 1961. The natural mother was having difficulty, through lack of…