Harvey Adoption Case

375 Pa. 1 (1953)

Harvey Adoption Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued November 10, 1952.

January 12, 1953.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

Norman Landy, with him Norman Paul Wolken, George J. Barco, Wolken & Landy and Barco & Barco, for appellant.

Gerald D. Prather, with him Leland J. Culbertson, for appellees.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, January 12, 1953:

Proceedings for the adoption of a child must be carefully differentiated from those involving merely a question of its custody; they are of far greater import and involve more serious…