Herman v. McIver

Shortly before 11 p.m. on May 15, 1956, the objector herein, Irene Ann Herman, an unmarried woman, gave birth to an infant daughter at a Cedar Rapids hospital. About 11 a.m. on the next day, May 16, an attorney for the proposed adoptive parents, Nora Marguerite Mclver and Floyd Malcolm Mclver, Jr., wife and husband, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, appeared at the hospital and procured from the objector her signature to a purported consent to adoption. Since in our view of the case the form of the instrument is controlling, we set it out herewith:

“Consent op Mother to Adoption

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