Tucker v. Fisk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on February 18,1890, to the Probate Court, to revoke a decree of adoption. The case was heard in this court, on an appéal taken by the petitioners, before Holmes, J., who reported the case for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in January, 1891, and after-wards, in September following, was submitted on the briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This was a petition to the Probate Court of Middlesex County, by the heirs at law and next of kin of Eliza Jane Fisk, late of Waltham, to revoke and annul a decree of adoption made upon the petition of said Eliza in 1884, and assented to by the adopted person, the respondent, in which it was decreed that the respondent should thenceforward be the child to all legal intents and purposes of the petitioner, and that his name should be changed from Jasper Paine Blake to Jasper Leon Fisk. The grounds alleged in the petition were, that at the time of said alleged adoption the said Eliza was of…
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