In Re Adoption of Burdette

This is an appeal on questions of law from the Probate Court of Summit county.

Norma Gills, a minor unwed mother, was delivered of a girl child on August 15, 1947, in the Peoples Hospital of Akron, Ohio.

On August 16, 1947, Norma and her father, Homer Gills, signed and acknowledged an answer and consent to adoption. The witnesses to the acknowledgment were Geo. A. Palmer, the attending physician, John G. Rowley, attorney for the petitioners to adopt, and Mrs. O. H. Gills, wife of Homer and mother of Norma. Norma and her father then signed a waiver of notice as to “all future hearings relative…