Strode v. Silverman

LESTER, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by Mrs. Sarah Silverman to set aside a judgment entered, in an adoption proceeding in which J. W. Strode and wife, Mrs. Margaret Strode, were granted leave to adopt Elaine Silverman, the minor daughter of Mrs. Silverman.

The record is quite voluminous and the statement of facts contains more than 350 pages, but it shows without dispute that in the summer of 1944, Mrs. Silverman had been abandoned by .her husband ;• that she wa9 left in destitute circumstances and in bad health and with two small children, Richard Silverman, aged two and a half years, and…