Commonwealth Ex Rel. Piper v. Edberg Et Ux.

Baldrige, J.,

Opinion by

This appeal is from the order of the court below awarding the custody of a female infant to its natural mother, the relator, Maria L. Piper.

There is no serious disagreement over the material facts, which may be stated as follows. In September 1940 the appellants, E. H. Edberg and Catherine Edberg his wife, placed a notice in a Pittsburgh paper expressing their desire to adopt a baby. Mrs. Mary Prunkard, the foster mother of the relator posing as a social worker, wrote under the assumed name of Mrs. Williams to the Edbergs stating she wanted to. find a home for a child…