Weinbach's Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This is an adoption proceeding. The mother, who is unmarried, seeks to recover her child from the persons who have custody of it and who present the petition for its adoption. She gave birth to the baby in the Salvation Army Home on August 5,1932, and remained in the home with the child for seven weeks following its birth. On the day she left, September 28,1932, she executed a paper in which she said: “I, Dorothy Weinbach, mother of Marilyn, do hereby release my said child Marilyn Weinbach to the Pittsburgh Bureau for Jewish Children, and do hereby further agree…