In re Camp
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from a decree of the probate court for the District of Windsor, AYindsor County. Petition by Archie J. Camp, father of Agnes Edna Camp, a minor, to the probate court for the District of Windsor, praying that her alleged adoption by Arthur Lewis Dewmaw and Gertrude Florence Dewmaw be vacated. Upon hearing, the probate court decreed that the adoption be vacated. The Dewmaws appealed. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
The law of this jurisdiction is such that when a resident desires to adopt a minor, he executes the instrument specified in G. L. 3761, and, when the same has been duly executed on behalf of the latter, files it in the office of the probate court of the district in which he, the adopter, resides. G. L^ 3756. If it appears to the court that the law has been complied with, the -instrument is to be recorded in the probate office. But a parent who had no notice of the proceedings may, within one year after receiving such notice, apply to such court to have the adoption vacated; and the court,…
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