Harvey Adoption Case

Dissenting Opinion by

Me. Justice Allen M. Steaene:

The legal problem presented is whether in an adoption case an appellate court will reverse a finding of abandonment made by a hearing judge, who alone saw and heard the witnesses, where such finding is amply supported by the testimony. The majority opinion repudiates such supported findings. I therefore dissent.

In Schwab Adoption Case, 355 Pa. 534, 50 A. 2d 504, we reversed the court below where a majority repudiated the finding of a hearing judge that the abandonment was not proven to his satisfaction. The majority in the present case,…